· Public charity
Pipefitters Association Local Union 533
Improve working conditions in the pipefitting industry and protect members from unjust and injurious conditions and to assist members in securing and stabilizing employment.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 56% of PIPEFITTERS ASSOCIATION LOCAL UNION 533’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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $237,487 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $316,809 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $79,322 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER KANSAS CITY BUILDING AND | $58,370 |
| FAIR CONTRACTING ALLIANCE | $45,000 |
| WORKING FAMILIES FRIEND | $44,151 |
| MINK PIPE TRADES ASSOCIATION | $18,500 |
| GREATER KANSASCITY AFL-CIO | $15,000 |
| WYANDOTTE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUN | $15,000 |
| UNION SPORTSMENS ALLIANCE | $12,250 |
| HEROFUNDUSA INC | $8,000 |
| MO AFL-CIO | $7,990 |
| GREATER KANSAS CITY LABOR COUNCIL | $7,776 |
| LABOR-MANAGEMENT COUNCIL OF GREATER | $5,450 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those 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.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- GKGREATER KANSAS CITY BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION TRADES6× · 2017–2024 · $264k · revenue +25%
- WFWORKING FAMILIES FRIEND8× · 2017–2024 · $238k · revenue +29%
- GKGREATER KANSAS CITY LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIO8× · 2017–2024 · $125k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- UBUNITED BROTHERHOOD OF CARPENTERS AND JOINERS OF AMERICA LU NO 315graduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +41%
- KGKEEP GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABLEone grant, 2020 · $30k
- COCITY OF KANSAS CITY MISSOURI PARKSone grant, 2017 · $15k
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.
Review and monitor on a fair and nondiscriminatory basis, compliance with the prevailing wage and fringe benefit laws pertaining to the construction industry in select counties in Missouri and Kansas.
Labor relations
The kansas afl-cio is the state federation of labor representing over 95,000 members of 300 unions througout kansas. the mission of the kansas afl-cio is to improve the lives of working families and to bring economic justice to the…
To support members in farming
To organize workers for the moral, economic and social advancement of their condition and status.
To promote and establish fair dealings and equitable relations between general contractors and owners, engineers, architects, subcontractors, labor and the general public in missouri.
To promote area commerce
Missouri Workers Center is building a multiracial worker-led movement to advance the rights and power of workers on and off the job in rural, urban, and suburban Missouri.
To provide representation for contracts with the greater st louis contractors association
Promote labor unions
Improve communications between employers and local unions.
The regional council is the central governing body and has legislative and executive powers in all matters relating to the general interest and welfare of thirty-three local unions in kansas, missouri and southern illinois.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Kansas City Labor Council Afl-Cio and the most unlike its peers is Fair Contracting Alliance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 25 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 GREATER KANSAS CITY BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION TRADES ↗
- Who funds WORKING FAMILIES FRIEND ↗
- Who funds GREATER KANSAS CITY LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIO ↗
- Who funds MINK PIPE TRADES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WYANDOTTE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds FAIR CONTRACTING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds UNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI AFL-CIO ↗
- Who funds UNITED BROTHERHOOD OF CARPENTERS AND JOINERS OF AMERICA LU NO 315 ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds LABOR MANAGEMENT COUNCIL OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds KANSAS VALUES INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE BLUESTEM FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC FREEDOM INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI STATE BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION TRADES COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY KANSAS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC ↗
- Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI WIN ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI DISABLED SPORTSMEN ↗
- Who funds HERO FUND USA ↗
- Who funds THE LENEXA ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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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 Pipefitters Association Local Union 533 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.