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Northern California Carpenters Regional Council at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

Northern California Carpenters Regional Council

To provide public relations and organizing services to affiliated local unions to promote welfare and working conditions of union members.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
49
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Public Safety & Disaster$5.1MPublic Benefit$1.1MCommunity Improvement$611kEmployment$583kPhilanthropy$535kEducation$381kHousing & Shelter$375kHuman Services$337kOther$0
02FY2025 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 49 grants below total $1,200,195, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,368,847 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $168,652 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k35 grants · $627k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $517k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$257M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARJAREE MASON CENTER$150,000
CIFAC$150,000
BAY AREA COUNCIL$57,000
THE UNITY COUNCIL$55,000
ROSSIE THE RIVETER TRUST$55,000
BUILDOUT CALIFORNIA$50,000
NPH$40,000
AGC OF CALIFORNIA$30,900
TRANSPORTATION CALIFORNIA$30,000
SVMBC BSA$25,050
SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$25,000
URBAN VIBRANCY INSTITUTE$25,000
CLINTON REILLY COMMUNICATIONS$25,000
SPUR$25,000
LEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA CITIES$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $5.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%A CHANCE IN LIFE Inc: $8k → 17%URBAN VIBRANCY INSTITUTE Inc: $25k → 8%URBAN VIBRANCY INSTITUTE: $25k → 8%URBAN VIBRANCY INSTITUTE: $25k → 8%SFR COMMUNITY FUND: $10k → 9%MARJAREE MASON CENTER: $150k → 19%SFR COMMUNITY FUND Inc: $5k → 9%BRENTWOOD ALLIANCE FOR SMART GROWTH TRACCIC ABATEMENT JOBS CREATION AND L: $20k → 9%HOUSING CALIFORNIA INC: $13k → 12%HOUSING CALIFORNIA: $6k → 12%NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CARPENTERS RELIEF FUND: $5.1M → 10%A CHANCE IN LIFE: $8k → 10%A CHANCE IN LIFE: $6k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
NV
CA
VA
AZ
NC
SC
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

22%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 41 repeat orgs$7.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

41 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
52

Total granted

$2.1M
$7.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
0%

Still filing today

90%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $538k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • NH
    NON-PROFIT HOUSING ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
    4× · 2022–2025 · $100k · revenue +112%
  • CH
    CARPENTERS HELPING HANDS INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $95k · revenue +221%
  • TC
    TRANSPORTATION CALIFORNIA
    3× · 2023–2025 · $90k · revenue +96%

Funded once

  • NC
    NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CARPENTERS RELIEF FUND
    2× · 2019–2020 · $5.1M · revenue ×12 · 100% of their budget
  • SV
    STRATEGIC VICTORY FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -26%
  • CB
    CCC BUILDING COMMUNITIES FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $330k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
California Chamber of Commerce

Represent members and cal employers to members of cal legislature and other agencies of state government through in-house legislative analysts, lobbying staff, and contract lobbyists. cal chamber publishes books and software related to…

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2
Santa Clara County Construction Careers Association

Provide services and information that promotes career opportunities in the construction industry.

Education
3
Sacramento-Sierras Building & Construction Trades Council

The council was organized to promote the growth and development of all building and construction trades and organized labor within its jurisdiction.

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4
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
5
California State Council of Service Employees

The council coordinated the efforts of affiliated local unions and assisted their organizations work, bettering the working conditions of their members.

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6
California Alliance for Jobs

To actively participate in the enhancement and development of unionized construction work in the Northern California area, and to promote public awareness of the importance of construction as an economic factor in the continued growth and…

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7
San Francisco Association of Realtors Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Coalition for Responsible and Equitable Economic Development Los Angeles

To ensure that the workers in the construction industry in Los Angeles are highly trained and professional. The organization seeks the creation of good jobs, safety for workers, health care and a secure retirement for working families.

Community Improvement
9
The American Institute of Architects California

The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.

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10
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
11
San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council Afl-Cio

The Labor Council offers an avenue for local unions to come together as one group.

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12
Contra Costa Labor Council Afl-Cio

The council is a federation of approximately 85 affiliated unions. the organizaton engages in a wide range of activities. the activities are designed to improve the lives of working families, to bring economic justice to the workplace, and…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability; the most unlike its peers is Janet and Clint Reilly Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 104 of the 116 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
87/104
Grantees still filing
47/104
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CARPENTERS RELIEF FUND: $5,100,000 · Human ServicesNORTHERN CALIFORNIA CARPENTERS RELIEF FUND+6 more: $299,800 · Human Services+6 moreSTRATEGIC VICTORY FUND: $500,000 · OtherSTRATEGIC VICTORY FUNDCCC BUILDING COMMUNITIES FUND: $330,179 · OtherCCC BUILDING COMMUNITIES FUNDCALIFORNIANS FOR SAFE SCHOOLS AND HEALTHY LEARNING: $330,000 · OtherCALIFORNIANS FOR SAFE SCHOOLS AND HEAL…CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY FORCE ACCOUNT COUNCIL: $250,000 · OtherCONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY FORCE ACCOUNT CO…NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CARPENTERSTHOMAS A MORTON MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $117,176 · Other+78 more: $1,805,769 · Other+78 moreSPANISH SPEAKING UNITY COUNCIL OF ALAMEDA COUNTY INC: $75,000 · Community ImprovementFresno Building Healthy Communities: $50,000 · Community ImprovementBUILDOUT CALIFORNIA: $50,000 · Community ImprovementYIMBY ACTION: $37,000 · Community ImprovementWALL AND CEILING ALLIANCE: $34,600 · Community ImprovementPlay 4 All Park Inc Vacaville Play 4 All Park: $20,000 · Community ImprovementTradeswomen Incorporated: $10,000 · Community ImprovementNON-PROFIT HOUSING ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $100,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING LEADERSHIP COUNCIL OF SAN MATEO COUNTY: $53,500 · Housing & ShelterSan Francisco Housing Action Coalition: $37,500 · Housing & ShelterMission Housing Development Corporation: $35,000 · Housing & ShelterJARED ALLENS HOMES FOR WOUNDED WARRIORS: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterCALIFORNIA HOUSING CONSORTIUM: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterCONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $76,750 · EducationCAPITAL COLLEGE & CAREER ACADEMY: $55,000 · EducationCYPRESS MANDELA TRAINING CENTER: $42,500 · EducationBUILDERS EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF CC: $20,000 · EducationPlasterers & Cement Masons Scholarship F: $20,000 · EducationNorthern California Laborers Scholarship Foundation: $13,000 · EducationSANTA ROSA JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $6,000 · EducationROSIE THE RIVETER TRUST: $55,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR NEW MUSIC SAN FRANCISCO INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureAGC CONSTRUCTION EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $70,400 · EmploymentHOPE SERVICES: $15,000 · EmploymentNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR FAIR CONTRACTING: $10,000 · Employment
Human Services$5,399,800Other$3,333,124Community Improvement$276,600Housing & Shelter$271,000Education$243,250Arts & Culture$100,000Employment$95,400

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTHERN CALIFORNIA CARPENTERS RELIEF FUND: $5,100,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetSTRATEGIC VICTORY FUND: $500,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY FORCE ACCOUNT COUNCIL: $250,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetMARJAREE MASON CENTER INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNORTHERN CALIFORNIA CARPENTERSTHOMAS A MORTON MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $117,176 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetNON-PROFIT HOUSING ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $100,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBAY AREA COUNCIL: $99,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCARPENTERS HELPING HANDS INC: $95,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetTRANSPORTATION CALIFORNIA: $90,000 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetCONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $76,750 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetURBAN VIBRANCY INSTITUTE INC FKA SAN JOSE SHIP KITS INC: $75,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetSPANISH SPEAKING UNITY COUNCIL OF ALAMEDA COUNTY INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAGC CONSTRUCTION EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $70,400 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetLEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY: $60,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCAPITAL COLLEGE & CAREER ACADEMY: $55,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetSPUR - SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA PLANNING AND URBAN RESEARCH ASSOCIATION: $55,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHOUSING LEADERSHIP COUNCIL OF SAN MATEO COUNTY: $53,500 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetFresno Building Healthy Communities: $50,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTHE SAN FRANCISCO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION: $49,280 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetCENTER FOR NEW MUSIC SAN FRANCISCO INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCYPRESS MANDELA TRAINING CENTER: $42,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetSan Francisco Housing Action Coalition: $37,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetYIMBY ACTION: $37,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTHE GIVING CIRCLE: $35,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetMission Housing Development Corporation: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWALL AND CEILING ALLIANCE: $34,600 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCentral Valley Partnership: $32,500 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetOld Skool Cafe: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMISSION HIRING HALL INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetJohn Burton Advocates for Youth: $30,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE URBAN LAND INSTITUTE: $27,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJARED ALLENS HOMES FOR WOUNDED WARRIORS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOFFSHORE WIND CALIFORNIA: $25,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCalifornia City Management Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetCITY OF HOPE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA CHANCE IN LIFEINC: $20,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCommittee to Save Caltrain Yes on Measure RR: $20,000 over 1y, 51% of budgetCALIFORNIA HOUSING CONSORTIUM: $20,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetYES ON MEASURE H TO REPAIR AND UPGRADE LOCAL SCHOOLS: $20,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetPlay 4 All Park Inc Vacaville Play 4 All Park: $20,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetFriends of Contra Costa Transportation: $20,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetASSOCIATED SCHOOLS OF CONSTRUCTION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPlasterers & Cement Masons Scholarship F: $20,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetHOUSING CALIFORNIA INC: $18,800 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGreater Stockton Chamber of Commerce: $16,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSFR COMMUNITY FUND INC: $15,500 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetBOOKER T WASHINGTON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Kaiser Foundation Hos…East Bay Community Fo…International Assn of…The San Francisco Fou…United Association Jo…Dome Construction Fou…The James Irvine Foun…Carp 46 No Ca Countie…Contra Costa Building…Tipping Point Communi…The PG&E Corporation …Silicon Valley Commun…
Kaiser Foundation HospitalsCA24.3× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · East Bay Community Foundation · International Assn of Smart No 104 · The San Francisco Foundation · United Association Journeymen & Apprentices 393 Ppf · Dome Construction Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Carp 46 No Ca Counties Conf Board- U B of Carp & Join of America · Contra Costa Building and Construction Trades Council · Tipping Point Community · The PG&E Corporation Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Northern California Carpenters Regional Council funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Northern California Carpenters Regional Council. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 116 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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