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Sheet Metal Workers' Local No 2 at a glance

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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.

$205k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$60k
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.

Employment$512kMembership Benefit$255kPhilanthropy$106kHuman Services$92kPublic Safety & Disaster$10k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $157,309, the rows itemized in this filing. The $205,315 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $48,006 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 $10k5 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $64k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$8,160
Median grant
4
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SMART DISASTER RELIEF FUND: $10k → 14%KANSAS AFL-CIO: $6k → 14%MISSOURI AFL-CIO: $9k → 10%WORKING FAMILIES FRIEND: $44k → 15%UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST JOSEPH: $43k → 18%GREAT PLAINS DISTRICT COUNCIL: $7k → 14%KANSAS AFL-CIO: $6k → 14%MISSOURI AFL-CIO: $8k → 10%WORKING FAMILIES FRIEND: $37k → 15%UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST JOSEPH: $35k → 18%GREAT PLAINS DISTRICT COUNCIL: $7k → 14%KANSAS AFL-CIO: $6k → 14%MISSOURI AFL-CIO: $8k → 10%GREATER KANSAS CITY AFL-CIO: $12k → 15%UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST JOSEPH: $28k → 18%GREAT PLAINS DISTRICT COUNCIL: $7k → 14%KANSAS AFL-CIO: $6k → 14%MISSOURI AFL-CIO: $8k → 10%GREATER KANSAS CITY AFL-CIO: $12k → 15%GREAT PLAINS DISTRICT COUNCIL: $7k → 14%MISSOURI AFL-CIO: $8k → 10%GREATER KANSAS CITY AFL-CIO: $12k → 15%GREAT PLAINS DISTRICT COUNCIL: $7k → 14%MISSOURI AFL-CIO: $8k → 10%GREATER KANSAS CITY AFL-CIO: $12k → 15%GREAT PLAINS DISTRICT COUNCIL: $7k → 14%MISSOURI AFL-CIO: $8k → 10%GREATER KANSAS CITY AFL-CIO: $12k → 15%GREAT PLAINS DISTRICT COUNCIL: $7k → 14%MISSOURI AFL-CIO: $8k → 10%GREATER KANSAS CITY AFL-CIO: $11k → 15%GREAT PLAINS DISTRICT COUNCIL: $7k → 14%MISSOURI AFL-CIO: $8k → 10%GREATER KANSAS CITY AFL-CIO: $7k → 15%GREAT PLAINS DISTRICT COUNCIL: $7k → 14%GREATER KANSAS CITY AFL-CIO: $7k → 15%GREATER KANSAS CITY AFL-CIO: $7k → 15%WORKING FAMILIES FRIEND: $6k → 15%WORKING FAMILIES FRIEND: $5k → 15%GTR KC BLDG & CONTR TRADES COUNCIL: $62k → 15%GTR KC BLDG & CONTR TRADES COUNCIL: $60k → 15%GTR KC BLDG & CONTR TRADES COUNCIL: $60k → 15%GTR KC BLDG & CONTR TRADES COUNCIL: $51k → 15%GTR KC BLDG & CONTR TRADES COUNCIL: $41k → 15%GTR KC BLDG & CONTR TRADES COUNCIL: $41k → 15%GTR KC BLDG & CONTR TRADES COUNCIL: $41k → 15%GTR KC BLDG & CONTR TRADES COUNCIL: $41k → 15%GTR KC BLDG & CONTR TRADES COUNCIL: $41k → 15%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$964k · 8 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
1

Total granted

$964k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+26%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% 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
EmploymentPhilanthropyOther
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
    9× · 2017–2025 · $437k · revenue +25%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST JOSEPH
    3× · 2017–2025 · $106k · revenue +2%
  • WF
    WORKING FAMILIES FRIEND
    4× · 2017–2025 · $92k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • IA
    INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SHEET METAL AIR RAIL AND TRANSPORTATION WORKERSgraduated
    one grant, 2025 · $10k · revenue +26%
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
Nebraska State Afl-Cio

Labor relations

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2
West Central Building and Construction Trades Council

Betterment of the wage earners working condition

Community Improvement
3
International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 957

Labor union

—
4
Laborers International Union of North America - Local 1076

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.

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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
American Federation of Labor & Bldg & Construction Trades Council

To create a better working environment for the construction industry and its members.

—
7
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…

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8
Laborers' International Union of North America Laborers' Local #43

Promote and protect the interests of the members of the local

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9
Iowa Laborers' Employers Cooperation & Education Trust

Improve communications between employers and local unions.

—
10
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Ks State Assn

To coordinate the political and legislative effort of local unions

Employment
11
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organization

To assist in organizing the unorganized workers in mississippi.

—
12
Laborers International Union of North America

Representing members in matters of collective bargaining.

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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 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.
04the grantee network

9 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREATER KANSAS CITY BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION TRADES: $437,000 · OtherGREATER KANSAS CITY BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION TRADESGREATER KANSAS CITY LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIO: $89,475 · OtherGREATER KANSAS CITY LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIOMISSOURI AFL-CIO: $74,523 · OtherMISSOURI AFL-CIOLABORERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NA GREAT PLAINS LABORERS' DISTRICT COUNCIL: $64,936 · OtherLABORERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NA GREAT PLAINS LABORERS' DISTRICT COUNCILMISSOURI STATE BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION TRADES COUNCIL: $57,672 · OtherMISSOURI STATE BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION TRADES COUNCILKANSAS AFL-CIO: $42,968 · OtherKANSAS AFL-CIOUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST JOSEPH: $105,725 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY O…WORKING FAMILIES FRIEND: $91,946 · EmploymentWORKING FAM…INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SHEET METAL AIR RAIL AND TRANSPORTATION WORKERS: $10,000 · EmploymentINTERNATION…
Other$766,574Philanthropy$105,725Employment$101,946

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGREATER KANSAS CITY BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION TRADES: $437,000 over 9y, 12% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST JOSEPH: $105,725 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetWORKING FAMILIES FRIEND: $91,946 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetGREATER KANSAS CITY LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIO: $89,475 over 9y, 3.4% of budgetMISSOURI AFL-CIO: $74,523 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetLABORERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NA GREAT PLAINS LABORERS' DISTRICT COUNCIL: $64,936 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetMISSOURI STATE BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION TRADES COUNCIL: $57,672 over 9y, 4.5% of budgetKANSAS AFL-CIO: $42,968 over 8y, 1.1% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Pipefitters Associati…
Pipefitters Association Local Union 533MO15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover 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 Sheet Metal Workers' Local No 2 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sheet Metal Workers' Local No 2. Bigger dots raise more.

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’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
    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 9 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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