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Operative Plasterers and Cement Masons' Int'L Assoc of the US & Canada at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

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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 FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $49,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $212,576 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $163,076 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 $10k1 grant · $10k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$65M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE$30,000
DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION$10,000
CENTER FOR MILITARY RECRUITMENT ASSESSMENT AND VETERANS EMPLOYMENT$9,500
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WESTERN WALL & CEILING CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION: $30k → 10%HIGH ROAD CONSTRUCTION DEFENSE FUND: $45k → 14%DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $10k → 15%UNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE: $83k → 10%FAIR FIGHT ACTION: $10k → 14%DC 711 BENEVOLENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $11k → 10%THE ASSOCIATION OF UNION CONSTRUCTORS: $7k → 7%PATRICK D FINLEY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $25k → 6%SHEET METAL AIR RAIL AND TRANSPORTATION WORKERS LOCAL 100: $7k → 11%WESTERN WALL & CEILING CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION: $21k → 10%NABTU CONFERENCE FUND: $35k → 14%UNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE: $42k → 10%PATRICK D FINLEY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $20k → 6%SHEET METAL AIR RAIL AND TRANSPORTATION WORKERS LOCAL 100: $6k → 11%NABTU CONFERENCE FUND: $25k → 14%UNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE: $35k → 10%PATRICK D FINLEY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $10k → 6%SHEET METAL WORKERS INTERNATIONAL LOCAL 100: $6k → 11%CENTER FOR MILITARY RECRUITMENT ASSESSMENT AND VETERANS EMPLOYMENT: $10k → 14%UNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE: $30k → 10%PATRICK D FINLEY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $134k → 11%NABTU - CONFERENCE FUND: $9k → 14%UNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE: $28k → 10%CENTER FOR MILITARY RECRUITMENT ASSESSMENT AND VETERANS EMPLOYMENT: $7k → 14%UNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE: $20k → 10%CMRAVE HELMETS TO HARDHATS: $6k → 14%UNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE: $11k → 10%SHEET METAL WORKERS INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $6k → 14%CMRAVE (CENTER FOR MILITARY RECRUITMENT ASSESSMENT & VETERANS EMPLOYMENT): $6k → 14%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

NJ
CA
VA
MD
TN
DC
GA
FL
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$602k · 6 repeat orgs$105k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
6

Total granted

$602k
$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
0%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EmploymentEducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • BA
    BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION TRADES DEPARTMENT AFL-CIO
    3× · 2022–2024 · $68k · revenue +19%
  • WW
    WESTERN WALL AND CEILING CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $51k · revenue +7%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR MILITARY RECRUITMENT ASSESSMENT AND VETERANS EMPLOYMENT
    4× · 2019–2025 · $28k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • HC
    HIGH-ROAD CONSTRUCTION DEFENSE FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $45k · revenue -99%
  • MO
    MILLIONS OF GREAT AMERICANS
    one grant, 2019 · $17k
  • ID
    IUPAT DC 711 BENEVOLENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $11k · revenue -17%
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
International Association of Sheet Metal Air Rail and Transportation Workers

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…

Employment
2
National Maintenance Agreement Labor- Management Policy Committee

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…

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3
International Union of Operating Engineers Local 624

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…

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4
Construction Industry Employers Association Inc

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…

Community Improvement
5
International Union of Bricklayers & Allied Craftworkers Local Union No 1

Collective bargaining representation on behalf of members.

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6
Assoc of Wall-Ceiling & Carp Ind Inc

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.

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7
Metropolitan Sheet Metal Journeyman and Apprentice Training Trust Fund

To provide training for journeyman, appprentices, and others working in the sheet metal workers profession.

Education
8
Nd State Building & Construction Trades Council

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

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9
Eastern Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters

Labor union maintaining and improving the benefit and working conditions of members engaged in the carpentry trade.

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10
Sheet Metal & Air Conditioning Contractors Association of Nyc Inc

Industry association providing negotiation and arbitration of industry labor contracts.

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11
The Connecticut Construction Industries Association Inc

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.…

Employment
12
International Association of Sheet Metal Air Rail and Transportation

To protect and raise the living standards of union members.

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Building and Construction Trades Department Afl-Cio; 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.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE: $247,366 · EnvironmentUNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCEPATRICK D FINLEY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $188,848 · EducationPATRICK D FINLEY SCHOLARSHIP FU…+1 more: $5,600 · EducationBUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION TRADES DEPARTMENT AFL-CIO: $68,366 · OtherBUILDING AND CONSTRUCTIO…WESTERN WALL AND CEILING CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION INC: $51,000 · OtherWESTERN WALL AND CEILING…MILLIONS OF GREAT AMERICANS: $17,453 · OtherMILLIONS OF GREAT AMERIC…FAIR FIGHT ACTION: $10,000 · OtherFAIR FIGHT ACTIONASSOCIATION OF UNION CONSTRUCTORS: $6,500 · OtherHIGH-ROAD CONSTRUCTION DEFENSE FUND: $45,000 · EmploymentHIGH-ROAD CONS…CENTER FOR MILITARY RECRUITMENT ASSESSMENT AND VETERANS EMPLOYMENT: $28,000 · EmploymentCENTER FOR MIL…SHEET METAL AIR RAIL AND TRANSPORTATION WORKERS' LOCAL 100: $18,800 · EmploymentSHEET METAL AI…IUPAT DC 711 BENEVOLENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $10,507 · PhilanthropyDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Health
Environment$247,366Education$194,448Other$153,319Employment$91,800Philanthropy$10,507Health$10,000

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

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
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.

International Brother…International Union o…International Assn of…International Union o…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Operative Plasterers and Cement Masons' Int'L Assoc of the US & Canada funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Operative Plasterers and Cement Masons' Int'L Assoc of the US & Canada. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 40%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 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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