· Public charity
Sheet Metal Workers Local Union No28 Labor Management Committee and Trust
To improve communications between labor & management
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 2 grants below total $15,116 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $49,616 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $34,500 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 · FY2021
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NY HELMETS TO HARDHATS | $10,000 |
| CENTRAL ISLIP COMMUNITY GARDEN | $5,116 |
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 (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 87% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +114% since the first grant, against -11% 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- NHNY HELMETS TO HARDHATS INC4× · 2017–2021 · $40k · revenue +17%
- HEHealing Emergency Aid Response Team 9112× · 2018–2019 · $20k · revenue +114%
- 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 WOMENgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +109%
- FOFRIENDS OF ST DOMINIC'S INCone grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue -11%
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.
See Schedule OProviding manpower training and related assistance and supportive services to unemployed and underemployed persons, particularly those from economically disadvantaged areas of the City and State of New York, including…
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…
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,…
The long island builders institute, formed in 1941, is an association of building industry professionals who are dedicated to making long island a better place to live and work by creating a balance between the economy, the environment,…
Liason for organized labor.
To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunities for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.
NYHCs mission is to advance City, State and Federal policies and funding to support the development and preservation of decent and affordable housing for all New Yorkers. NYHC is a nonprofit affordable housing policy and advocacy…
Promote workforce development and job creation through activities specifically designed to create skilled workforce in the City of New York.
Liason for organized labor in the new york city area.
Repair homes, revitalize communities, and rebuild lives by improving housing safety, reskilling underemployed new yorkers in construction trades, and enhancing community spaces with volunteers and partners.
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…
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.
8 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. 8 of the 10 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.
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.
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.
Open a dossier: International Union of Painters and Allied Trades District Council No 9 · Carpenter Contractor Alliance of Metropolitan New York Inc · New York City Carpenters Relief and Charity Fund · Plumbers Local Union No 1 · New York City & Vicinity District Council Ubcja · International Brotherhood of Tmstrs Local 282 Tcwh · Posillico Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 organization Sheet Metal Workers Local Union No28 Labor Management Committee and Trust 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.
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