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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.

$213k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
3
Itemized grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$50k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 7
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$65M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Operative Plasterers and Cement Masons' Int'L Assoc of the US & Canada funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

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EmploymentEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving3$50k33%
FY20242$70k0%
FY20234$121k0%
FY20224$77k25%
FY20214$50k50%
FY20203$86k33%
FY20197$105k86%
FY20181$10k0%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$247kEducation$205kEmployment$149kMembership Benefit$68kPublic Benefit$17kCivil Rights$10kHealth$10k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NJ
CA
VA
MD
TN
DC
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Where it is load-bearing

Operative Plasterers and Cement Masons' Int'L Assoc of the US & Canada supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnion Sportsmen's Alliance: $247,366 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetPatrick D Finley Scholarship Fund: $188,848 over 4y, 84% of budgetBuilding and Construction Trades Department Afl-Cio: $68,366 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWestern Wall and Ceiling Contractors Association Inc: $51,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHigh-Road Construction Defense Fund: $45,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetCenter for Military Recruitment Assessment and Veterans Employment: $28,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSheet Metal Air Rail and Transportation Workers' Local 100: $18,800 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDiabetes Research Institute Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAssociation of Union Constructors: $6,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSheet Metal Workers' International Scholarship Fund: $5,600 over 1y, 0.7% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

International Brotherhood of Electrical WorkersDC17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Operative Plasterers and Cement Masons' Int'L Assoc of the US & Canada

How much does Operative Plasterers and Cement Masons' Int'L Assoc of the US & Canada give?
Operative Plasterers and Cement Masons' Int'L Assoc of the US & Canada reported 3 itemized grants totaling $49,500, out of $212,576 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Operative Plasterers and Cement Masons' Int'L Assoc of the US & Canada fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (35%), Education (29%), Employment (21%).
Who are Operative Plasterers and Cement Masons' Int'L Assoc of the US & Canada's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Union Sportsmen's Alliance ($247k), Patrick D Finley Scholarship Fund ($189k), Building and Construction Trades Department Afl-Cio ($68k).
Does Operative Plasterers and Cement Masons' Int'L Assoc of the US & Canada fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Operative Plasterers and Cement Masons' Int'L Assoc of the US & Canada?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, International Union of Elevator Constructors, International Assn of Bridge Structural Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers.
Where is Operative Plasterers and Cement Masons' Int'L Assoc of the US & Canada based?
Operative Plasterers and Cement Masons' Int'L Assoc of the US & Canada is based in MD.

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 13 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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