· Public charity
Sheet Metal Workers' Local No 2
Promote and demonstrate the possibilities of trade in the various fields of industry and protect the rights of its members in a united effort with other members throughout the united states and canada.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $157,309 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $205,315 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $48,006 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 $10k5 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $64k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GTR KC BLDG & CONTR TRADES COUNCIL | $60,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST JOSEPH | $42,692 |
| GREATER KANSAS CITY AFL-CIO | $11,700 |
| SMART DISASTER RELIEF FUND | $10,000 |
| MISSOURI AFL-CIO | $8,160 |
| GREAT PLAINS DISTRICT COUNCIL | $7,200 |
| MO ST BLDG & CONST TRADES COUNCIL | $6,408 |
| KANSAS AFL-CIO | $5,849 |
| WORKING FAMILIES FRIEND | $5,300 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 92% of your 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.
8 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 TRADES9× · 2017–2025 · $437k · revenue +25%
- UWUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST JOSEPH3× · 2017–2025 · $106k · revenue +2%
- WFWORKING FAMILIES FRIEND4× · 2017–2025 · $92k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- IAINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SHEET METAL AIR RAIL AND TRANSPORTATION WORKERSgraduatedone grant, 2025 · $10k · revenue +26%
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.
Labor relations
Betterment of the wage earners working condition
Labor union
The local is a nonprofit organization established to represent its members in wage and fringe benefits matters in the construction industry. the local's primary areas of jurisdiction are oakland and livingston counties.
To organize workers for the moral, economic and social advancement of their condition and status.
To create a better working environment for the construction industry and its members.
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…
Promote and protect the interests of the members of the local
Improve communications between employers and local unions.
To coordinate the political and legislative effort of local unions
To assist in organizing the unorganized workers in mississippi.
Representing members in matters of collective bargaining.
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 Working Families Friend. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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.
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 UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST JOSEPH ↗
- Who funds WORKING FAMILIES FRIEND ↗
- Who funds GREATER KANSAS CITY LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIO ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI AFL-CIO ↗
- Who funds LABORERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NA GREAT PLAINS LABORERS' DISTRICT COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI STATE BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION TRADES COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds KANSAS AFL-CIO ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SHEET METAL AIR RAIL AND TRANSPORTATION WORKERS ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Pipefitters Association Local Union 533
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 Workers' Local No 2 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.