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Pipefitters Association Local Union 533 at a glance

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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.

$317k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$58k
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 2024.

Employment$485kCommunity Improvement$261kHuman Services$238kMembership Benefit$208kRecreation & Sports$95kPublic Benefit$70kHealth$49kFood & Nutrition$12kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $237,487, the rows itemized in this filing. The $316,809 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $79,322 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $150k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$9.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREATER KANSAS CITY BUILDING AND$58,370
FAIR CONTRACTING ALLIANCE$45,000
WORKING FAMILIES FRIEND$44,151
MINK PIPE TRADES ASSOCIATION$18,500
WYANDOTTE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUN$15,000
GREATER KANSASCITY AFL-CIO$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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MISSOURI DISABLED SPORTSMAN: $8k → 17%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.
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 15 repeat orgs$155k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
9

Total granted

$1.3M
$147k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+41%

Still filing today

100%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementEmploymentEnvironmentArts & CultureFood & NutritionEducationOther
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

  • GK
    GREATER KANSAS CITY BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION TRADES
    6× · 2017–2024 · $264k · revenue +25%
  • WF
    WORKING FAMILIES FRIEND
    8× · 2017–2024 · $238k · revenue +29%
  • GK
    GREATER KANSAS CITY LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIO
    8× · 2017–2024 · $125k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • UB
    UNITED BROTHERHOOD OF CARPENTERS AND JOINERS OF AMERICA LU NO 315graduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +41%
  • KG
    KEEP GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABLE
    one grant, 2020 · $30k
  • CO
    CITY OF KANSAS CITY MISSOURI PARKS
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
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
Labor Management Fair Contracting Foundation

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.

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2
Nebraska State Afl-Cio

Labor relations

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3
Kansas Afl-Cio

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…

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4
Kansas Farmers Union Inc

To support members in farming

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5
Central Midwest Regional Council of Carpenters

To organize workers for the moral, economic and social advancement of their condition and status.

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6
Associated General Contractors of Missouri

To promote and establish fair dealings and equitable relations between general contractors and owners, engineers, architects, subcontractors, labor and the general public in missouri.

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7
South Kansas City Chamber of Commerce

To promote area commerce

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8
Missouri Workers Center

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.

Employment
9
Eastern Missouri Laborers' District Council

To provide representation for contracts with the greater st louis contractors association

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10
Oklahoma State Afl-Cio

Promote labor unions

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11
Iowa Laborers' Employers Cooperation & Education Trust

Improve communications between employers and local unions.

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12
St Louis-Kansas City Carpenters Regional Council

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Kansas City Labor Council Afl-Cio; 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.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
17/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREATER KANSAS CITY BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION TRADES: $264,367 · OtherGREATER KANSAS CITY BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION TRADESGREATER KANSAS CITY LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIO: $124,792 · OtherGREATER KANSAS CITY LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIOWYANDOTTE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC: $115,500 · OtherWYANDOTTE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INCMISSOURI AFL-CIO: $57,288 · OtherMISSOURI AFL-CIOUNITED BROTHERHOOD OF CARPENTERS AND JOINERS OF AMERICA LU NO 315: $50,000 · OtherUNITED BROTHERHOOD OF CARPENTERS AND JOINERS OF AMERICA LU NO 31…CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK: $49,250 · OtherCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORKLABOR MANAGEMENT COUNCIL OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $42,736 · OtherKEEP GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABLE: $30,000 · Other+7 more: $87,820 · Other+7 moreWORKING FAMILIES FRIEND: $238,387 · EmploymentWORKING FAMILIES FRIENDMINK PIPE TRADES ASSOCIATION: $119,400 · EmploymentMINK PIPE TRADES ASSOCIATIO…FAIR CONTRACTING ALLIANCE: $90,000 · Community ImprovementFAIR CONTRACT…KANSAS VALUES INSTITUTE: $40,000 · Community ImprovementKANSAS VALUES…THE BLUESTEM FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC FREEDOM INC: $30,000 · Community ImprovementTHE BLUESTEM …MISSOURI WIN: $10,000 · Community ImprovementMISSOURI WINUNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE: $71,500 · EnvironmentHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $12,000 · Food & NutritionNATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMISSOURI DISABLED SPORTSMEN: $8,150 · Human Services
Other$821,753Employment$357,787Community Improvement$170,000Environment$71,500Food & Nutrition$12,000Arts & Culture$10,000Human Services$8,150

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGREATER KANSAS CITY BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION TRADES: $264,367 over 6y, 13% of budgetWORKING FAMILIES FRIEND: $238,387 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetGREATER KANSAS CITY LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIO: $124,792 over 8y, 6.7% of budgetMINK PIPE TRADES ASSOCIATION: $119,400 over 6y, 10% of budgetWYANDOTTE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC: $115,500 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetFAIR CONTRACTING ALLIANCE: $90,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetUNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE: $71,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMISSOURI AFL-CIO: $57,288 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED BROTHERHOOD OF CARPENTERS AND JOINERS OF AMERICA LU NO 315: $50,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK: $49,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLABOR MANAGEMENT COUNCIL OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $42,736 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetKANSAS VALUES INSTITUTE: $40,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetTHE BLUESTEM FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC FREEDOM INC: $30,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetMISSOURI STATE BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION TRADES COUNCIL: $25,920 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetKANSAS CITY KANSAS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $15,300 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMISSOURI WIN: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHERO FUND USA: $8,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTHE LENEXA ROTARY FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 1y, 8.9% 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.

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Sheet Metal Workers' Local No 2MO15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Pipefitters Association Local Union 533 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pipefitters Association Local Union 533. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 25 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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