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Sheet Metal Air Rail and Transportation Workers' Local 100

To promote the sheet metal union industry and represent the union membership in collective bargaining efforts.

$218k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$93k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 98% of SHEET METAL AIR RAIL AND TRANSPORTATION WORKERS' LOCAL 100’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.

02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 7 grants below total $197,238 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $217,837 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $20,599 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 · $7k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $98k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $93k
$16,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTHLAND INDUSTRIES$92,690
WE BOWERSBOWERS GROUP INC$32,377
ADJ SHEET METAL$28,571
SMART UNION$16,000
UNITED LABOR AGENCY OF NEVADA$11,100
MID-ATLANTIC APPRENTICE COMPETITION$10,000
UNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE$6,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GREATER ROANOKE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT: $6k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.9M · 9 repeat orgs$722k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
16

Total granted

$2.9M
$688k

Still filing today

0%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsEmploymentPhilanthropyOther

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

  • WB
    WE BOWERSBOWERS GROUP INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $1.1M
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2020–2021 · $816k
  • AS
    ADJ SHEET METAL
    3× · 2023–2025 · $412k

Funded once

  • AS
    ADJ SHEET METAL INC
    one grant, 2021 · $190k
  • MM
    METRO MECHANICAL CONTRACTORS
    one grant, 2023 · $128k
  • MT
    METRO TEST & BALANCE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $125k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
United Association of Journeymen & Apprentices of the Plumbing & Pipe

To provide for its members through job placing, wage and benefit negotiations, representation and a better quality of life.

2
International Union of Operating Engineers Local 825ABCDRRH

The work of the union, as the representative of its members, is to provide for the continuous employment of labor, to bring about stable conditions in the industry, and to establish necessary procedures for resolutions of disputes between…

3
Local Union #601 of Ua of Journeymen & Apprentices of the Plumbing & Pf Ind

A union to organize employees, service and maintain wages, hours, working conditions and other economic advantages.

4
The National Association of State Workforce Agencies

The national association of state workforce agencies (naswa) mission is to enhance the state workforce agencies' ability to accomplish their goals, statutory roles and responsibilities.

5
Laborers International Union of Na Sewer and Tunnel Miners Union Local 2

Secure fair compensation and working conditions for all members.

6
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…

7
Sheet Metal Workers Local 292 Apprenticeship Fund

Apprenticeship Training

8
United Association of Journeymen & Apprentices of the Plmbng & Pipe 353 Ppf

Operation of steamfitters' local union for the benefit of its members

9
United Steel Paper and Forestry Rubber Manufacturing Energy Allied

Work together to improve jobs, build a better future, promote fairness, justice and equality in the workplace and in society.

10
Laborer's International Union of North a

A fraternal labor organization whose purpose is to promote employment of members in a safe work environment and ensurefair labor practices.

11
International Assn of Smart No 104

Dedicated to extending the benefits and solidarity to all of those working in sheet metal throughout northern california.

Employment
12
Laborers International Union of 341 Hcl

Union hall devoted to the betterment of members compensation and working conditions, to secure recognition of workers rights to engage in collective bargaining, and to promote the development and maintenance of on-the-job safety practices…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Labor Agency of Nevada Inc and the most unlike its peers is Special Olympics Maryland 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

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 28 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WE BOWERSBOWERS GROUP INC — $1,080,148 · OtherWE BOWERSBOWERS GROUP INCIndividual grant recipient — $815,699 · OtherIndividual grant recipientADJ SHEET METAL — $412,269 · OtherADJ SHEET METALSOUTHLAND INDUSTRIES — $262,946 · OtherSOUTHLAND INDUSTRIESADJ SHEET METAL INC — $190,471 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $146,337 · OtherMETRO MECHANICAL CONTRACTORS — $128,310 · OtherMETRO TEST & BALANCE INC — $125,128 · OtherSSM INDUSTRIES INC — $122,928 · Other+12 more — $293,317 · Other+12 morePEGGY BROWNING FUND — $10,000 · EducationSHEET METAL WORKER JOINT APPRENTICE & TRAINING COMMITTEE OF CENTRAL PA — $7,000 · EducationINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SHEET METAL AIR RAIL AND TRANSPORTATION WORKERS — $16,000 · EmploymentWORLD ARTS FOCUS — $15,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED LABOR AGENCY OF NEVADA INC — $11,100 · PhilanthropySPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC — $7,000 · Health
Other$3,577,553Education$17,000Employment$16,000Arts & Culture$15,000Philanthropy$11,100Recreation & Sports$10,000Health$7,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWORLD ARTS FOCUS — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED LABOR AGENCY OF NEVADA INC — $11,100 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPEGGY BROWNING FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHEET METAL WORKER JOINT APPRENTICE & TRAINING COMMITTEE OF CENTRAL PA — $7,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGREATER ROANOKE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD INC — $5,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SHEET METAL AIR RAIL AND TRANSPORTATION WORKERS
  • Who funds WORLD ARTS FOCUS
  • Who funds UNITED LABOR AGENCY OF NEVADA INC
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds PEGGY BROWNING FUND
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC
  • Who funds DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds SHEET METAL WORKER JOINT APPRENTICE & TRAINING COMMITTEE OF CENTRAL PA
  • Who funds UNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE
  • Who funds GREATER ROANOKE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD INC

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.

International Assn of Smart No 104CA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: International Assn of Smart No 104 · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Sheet Metal Air Rail and Transportation Workers' Local 100 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 100%
  • World Arts Focus100% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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