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· Public charity
SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL UNION NO28
To improve communications between labor & management
$50k
Granted FY2021
2
Grants
1
Communities
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0162% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2021.
Public Benefit$40kPhilanthropy$20kEmployment$15kHealth$8kYouth Development$8kOther$55k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
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2019
womenworksincomeemploymentcareerstrades
2021
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2021 · 2 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
- NY HELMETS TO HARDHATS$10,000
- CENTRAL ISLIP COMMUNITY GARDEN$5,116
02The need
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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:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 8%. 87% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.
49%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$71k · 3 repeat orgs$74k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against -19% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2021, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
3
6
Total granted
$71k
$69k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+17%
-19%
Still filing today
67%
67%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Public BenefitYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyEmploymentHealthOther
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
- NHNYC HELMETS TO HARDHATS INC4× · 2017–2021 · $40k · revenue +17%
- HEHEALING EMERGENCY AID RESPONSE TEAM 9112× · 2018–2019 · $20k · revenue 0%
- BCBUILDING & CONSTRUCTION TRADES COUNCIL OF NASSAU & SUFFOLK COUNTIES2× · 2018–2019 · $11k
Funded once
- BUBUILD UP NYC LLCone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -100%
- NENONTRADITIONAL EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMENone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +4%
- FOFRIENDS OF SAINT DOMINIC'Sone grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue -46%
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.
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Building Trades Employers Assn of
To be the public voice and advocate for union contractors in new york city.
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2
Upstate New York Construction
To assist workers and employers in solving problems of mutual concern not susceptible to resolution within the collective bargaining process, to improve the employment opportunities for employees, to expand the market for the construction…
Employment
3
New York Disaster
To develop and support faith-based disaster readiness, response, and recovery services for new york city - and, supports recovery in disaster-impacted communities with a direct connection to nyc.
Public Safety & Disaster
4
Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp
To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunites for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.
Community Improvement
5
New York State Building & Construction
Liaison for organized labor.
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6
Workforce Development Corporation
Promote workforce development and job creation through activities specifically designed to create skilled workforce in the City of New York.
Education
7
New York City Business Assistance Corporation
To reduce unemployment, promote and provide for additional and maximum employment in NYC, encourage the development and/or retention of businesses in NYC; instruct or train individuals to improve and develop their capabilities for jobs in…
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8
The New York Urban League Inc
To improve social and economic conditions for those in underserved ethnic communities
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9
New York City Energy Efficiency
Delivering financing solutions and advancing markets for energy efficiency and clean energy.
Environment
10
Nyc Nowc Inc
The NYC Network of Worker Cooperatives is dedicated to sharing and cultivating the educational, financial, and technical resources of its members and supporting the growth of worker cooperatives for social and economic justice. We offer…
Community Improvement
11
New York Women's Foundation Inc
Create an equitable and just future for women, families and communities across new york city.
Human Services
12
New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health Inc
The New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH) is a membership organization of workers, unions, community-based organizations, workers' rights activists, and health and safety professionals. NYCOSH uses training,…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ny Helmets to Hardhats Inc and the most unlike its peers is Healing Emergency Aid Response Team 911. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$55,066Public Benefit$40,000Philanthropy$20,000Employment$15,000Health$7,500Youth Development$7,500
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.
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 Union of Painters AndNY16× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: International Union of Painters And · Carpenter Contractor Alliance Of · New York City Carpenters Relief · Plumbers Local Union No 1 · New York City & Vicinity District · International Brotherhood of Tmstrs · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 organisation SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL UNION NO28 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BUILD UP NYC LLC.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
high risk
3 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.
Legal standing
medium risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 461378741 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on BUILD UP NYC LLC, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 4% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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Find your warmest path to Sheet Metal Workers Local Union No28 through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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