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· Public charity

North Central States Regional Council of Carpenters

To promote and protect the interest of members.

$123k
Granted FY2026still arriving
3
Grants FY2026still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of NORTH CENTRAL STATES REGIONAL COUNCIL OF CARPENTERS’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2026 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 3 grants below total $70,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $122,592 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $52,592 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2026

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
2026 PRIMARY AND GE ELECTION CYCLE$50,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
BREWERS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CARPENTER RELIEF FUND: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

MN
IL
WI
NV
SD
IA
CA
NE
AZ
DC
LA
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 9 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2026, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
29

Total granted

$1.3M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+8%

Still filing today

89%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
EmploymentEducationCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CD
    CENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA
    7× · 2017–2025 · $840k · revenue +193%
  • WJ
    WORKER JUSTICE WISCONSIN
    3× · 2023–2025 · $150k · revenue +2%
  • BS
    BIG STEP INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $87k · revenue +97%

Funded once

  • WF
    WISCONSIN FREEDOM ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2017 · $703k · revenue -94% · 72% of their budget
  • PF
    PROSPERITY FOR EVERYDAY PEOPLE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $400k
  • CU
    CARPENTERS UNION LOCAL 1306
    one grant, 2022 · $80k · revenue +8% · 42% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Nd State Building & Construction Trades Council

Advocate fair wages, safe working conditions, registered apprenticeships, and dignified retirement.

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2
Central Midwest Regional Council of Carpenters

To organize workers for the moral, economic and social advancement of their condition and status.

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3
Contractors Association of Will and Grundy Counties

Contractors association of will & grundy counties serves as the voice of the commercial and industrial construction industry and unites our members through labor and government relations, collective bargaining, marketing, networking, and…

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4
Iowa Skilled Trades

Faciltate a team of industry professionals to bring initiatives, education and awareness to skilled trades in iowa

Education
5
West Central Building and Construction Trades Council

Betterment of the wage earners working condition

Community Improvement
6
Wisconsin Laborers' District Council

To protect and improve the lives of its members through family supporting wages and benefits, as well as through programs and services designed to make its members the safest, most skilled and productive workers in the laborers industry.

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7
Wisconsin State Afl-Cio

The mission of the wisconsin state afl-cio is to improve the lives of working families, to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our state and the nation.

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8
Laborers' Int'l Union Local 563

Local 563 represents approximately 7,500 construction workers employed in minneapolis, mn, st paul, mn and surrounding areas. its purpose is to organize all workers for the economic, moral and social advancement of their condition and…

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9
Midwest Urban Strategies

Improve the economic conditions of the midwest region, with targeted focus on urban areas, to serve and advance the needs and interests of the region's diverse populations, employers, workers, job seekers and workforce development…

Employment
10
St Paul Pipefitters Local 455 Apprentice Scholarship Fund
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11
Minnesota State Building & Construction Trades Council

The council's primary exempt purpose is to support workers for the economic, moral and social advancement of their condition and status.

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12
St Paul Building and Construction Trades Council

The council's exempt purpose is to support workers for the economic, moral and social advancement of their condition and status. the council consists of approximately 80 delegates from 22 local unions affiliated with the council. the…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Building Strong Communities Inc and the most unlike its peers is Alliant Energy Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLegal Aid & Immigration Ser…Youth Sports Booster Organi…Affordable Housing Developm…Veteran Support ServicesPublic Library SupportCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 19 years old; the field is 20. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%8%<5yr12%19%5–10yr20%27%10–20yr16%8%20–35yr16%23%35–55yr19%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%1%<5yr12%3%5–10yr20%78%10–20yr16%1%20–35yr16%10%35–55yr19%7%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/38
the rest of the field
8%
3,022/36,488

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 42 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/33
Grantees still filing
21/33
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WISCONSIN FREEDOM ALLIANCE — $703,000 · OtherWISCONSIN FREEDOM ALLIANCEPROSPERITY FOR EVERYDAY PEOPLE INC — $400,000 · OtherPROSPERITY FOR EVERYDAY PEOPLE INCNORTH CENTRAL STATES REGIONAL COUNCIL OF CARPENTERS — $107,000 · OtherNORTH CENTRAL STATES REGIONAL COUNCIL OF CARPENTERSBIG STEP INC — $87,000 · OtherCARPENTERS UNION LOCAL 1306 — $80,000 · Other+26 more — $439,460 · Other+26 moreCENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA — $840,000 · EmploymentCENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LUCHAWORKER JUSTICE WISCONSIN — $150,000 · EmploymentWORKER JUSTICE WISCONSIN+3 more — $25,751 · EmploymentSUMMIT ACADEMY OIC — $27,500 · EducationNORTH CENTRAL STATES REGIONAL COUNCIL OF CARPENTERS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · EducationALLIANCE FOR A BETTER IOWA — $25,000 · Civil RightsJARED ALLENS HOMES FOR WOUNDED WARRIORS — $16,188 · Housing & ShelterFAIR RATES FOR WISCONSIN'S DAIRYLAND INC — $13,500 · EnvironmentHDM 2023 — $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,816,460Employment$1,015,751Education$47,500Civil Rights$25,000Housing & Shelter$16,188Environment$13,500Recreation & Sports$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA — $840,000 over 7y, 8.7% of budgetWISCONSIN FREEDOM ALLIANCE — $703,000 over 1y, 72% of budgetWORKER JUSTICE WISCONSIN — $150,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetNORTH CENTRAL STATES REGIONAL COUNCIL OF CARPENTERS — $107,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBIG STEP INC — $87,000 over 8y, 5.5% of budgetCARPENTERS UNION LOCAL 1306 — $80,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetMinneapolis Regional Labor Federation — $50,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetALLIANT ENERGY FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSUMMIT ACADEMY OIC — $27,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetALLIANCE FOR A BETTER IOWA — $25,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetNORTH CENTRAL STATES REGIONAL COUNCIL OF CARPENTERS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetJARED ALLENS HOMES FOR WOUNDED WARRIORS — $16,188 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSKILLED WISCONSIN INC — $15,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetFAIR RATES FOR WISCONSIN'S DAIRYLAND INC — $13,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetMINNESOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHDM 2023 — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWORKING AMERICA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHERN CALIFORNIA CARPENTERS RELIEF FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetEAST SIDE FREEDOM LIBRARY — $10,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBUILDING STRONG COMMUNITIES INC — $9,751 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $8,150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORKING FOR WISCONSIN INC — $6,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBILLIE SUTTON LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE — $5,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetEXPERIENCE GREATER GREEN BAY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRAL MINNESOTA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Wisconsin Infrastruct…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Wisconsin Infrastructure Investment Now IncWI13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wisconsin Infrastructure Investment Now Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization North Central States Regional Council of Carpenters funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 42 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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