· Public charity
Operative Plasterers and Cement Masons' Int'L Assoc of the US & Canada
The operative plasterers' & cement masons' intl association's primary mission is to achieve a fair wage, safer work environment and better fringe benefits for its union employees and members.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 3 grants below total $49,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $212,576 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $163,076 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $10k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE | $30,000 |
| DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CENTER FOR MILITARY RECRUITMENT ASSESSMENT AND VETERANS EMPLOYMENT | $9,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- BABUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION TRADES DEPARTMENT AFL-CIO3× · 2022–2024 · $68k · revenue +19%
- WWWESTERN WALL AND CEILING CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION INC2× · 2019–2020 · $51k · revenue +7%
- CFCENTER FOR MILITARY RECRUITMENT ASSESSMENT AND VETERANS EMPLOYMENT4× · 2019–2025 · $28k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- HCHIGH-ROAD CONSTRUCTION DEFENSE FUNDone grant, 2020 · $45k · revenue -99%
- MOMILLIONS OF GREAT AMERICANSone grant, 2019 · $17k
- IDIUPAT DC 711 BENEVOLENT SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2021 · $11k · revenue -17%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To ensure a cooperative effort directed to fully develop and demonstrate the possibilities of workers in building trades, railroad, production, bus and mass transit and shipyard industries of the united states and canada and to protect…
The national maintenance agreements policy committee negotiates and administers the national maintenance agreements, a series of collective bargaining agreements utilized by more than 1,700 industrial contractors who employ members of…
The organization is a trade union that represents operating engineers, who work as heavy equipment operators, mechanics,and surveyors in the construction industry, and stationary engineers, who work in operations and maintenance in…
The purpose of the association is to represent its members in the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements with representatives of labor, providing for terms and conditions of employment and the administration of grievances. in…
Collective bargaining representation on behalf of members.
To enter into contracts and agreements with various unions on behalf of our members. to engage in poublic relations, education, to protect existing standards within the carpentry industry.
To provide training for journeyman, appprentices, and others working in the sheet metal workers profession.
Advocate fair wages, safe working conditions, registered apprenticeships, and dignified retirement.
Labor union maintaining and improving the benefit and working conditions of members engaged in the carpentry trade.
Industry association providing negotiation and arbitration of industry labor contracts.
All activities conducted by the association are to enable it to:a. establish a better understanding between the members and companies in the construction and related industries.b. foster reasonable and just regulations by governments c.…
To protect and raise the living standards of union members.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Building and Construction Trades Department Afl-Cio and the most unlike its peers is Diabetes Research Institute 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.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 13 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds UNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds PATRICK D FINLEY SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION TRADES DEPARTMENT AFL-CIO ↗
- Who funds WESTERN WALL AND CEILING CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH-ROAD CONSTRUCTION DEFENSE FUND ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR MILITARY RECRUITMENT ASSESSMENT AND VETERANS EMPLOYMENT ↗
- Who funds SHEET METAL AIR RAIL AND TRANSPORTATION WORKERS' LOCAL 100 ↗
- Who funds MILLIONS OF GREAT AMERICANS ↗
- Who funds IUPAT DC 711 BENEVOLENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF UNION CONSTRUCTORS ↗
- Who funds SHEET METAL WORKERS' INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
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.
Open a dossier: International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers · International Union of Elevator Constructors · International Assn of Bridge Structural Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers · International Union of Bricklayers & Allied Craftworkers
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 Operative Plasterers and Cement Masons' Int'L Assoc of the US & Canada 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.
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.