· Public charity
Southern States Millwright Regional Council
To promote and protect the interest of its membership, to encourage the apprenticeship system, to assist members in procuring employment, and to protect its members.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $2,004,656 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,091,132 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $86,476 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 · FY2022
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $41k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $455k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AR OK Carpenters Apprentice Training | $1,500,000 |
| Southeastern Carpenters Training Trust | $200,000 |
| Mid-South Carpenters Regional Council Training Trust Fund | $146,920 |
| Gulf Coast Carp & MW Training Trust | $107,990 |
| Gulf Coast Carp & MW Training Center | $21,440 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| Central South Carpenters & Millwrights Training Trust Fund | $8,306 |
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 (FY20–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 72% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
Representing members in matters of collective bargaining.
Labor union
Labor union
To coordinate contractors and union relationship as it pertains to contracts, training and promotion of union activity.
Improve skills and production by training apprentice carpenters, millwrights and piledrivers.
A labor organization dedicated to the betterment and advancement of its members, and maintaining and improving the benefits and working conditions of those engaged in the trade.
Apprenticeship and journeymen training fund
This is a multiemployer collectively bargained plan that provides training and education for apprentices and journeyman ironworkers.
To provide training for journeyman, appprentices, and others working in the sheet metal workers profession.
Provide representation for members of the organization.
Labor union maintaining and improving the benefit and working conditions of members engaged in the carpentry trade.
The Fund provides education and training to apprentices and journeymen as provided by the collective bargaining agreement.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid-South Carpenters Regional Council Training Trust Fund and the most unlike its peers is Miracle League of Music City. 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 21 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.
- Who funds MILLWRIGHTS LOCAL UNION NO 729 ↗
- Who funds MILLWRIGHT LOCAL UNION 1263 ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEASTERN CARPENTERS TRAINING TRUST ↗
- Who funds MILLWRIGHTS LOCAL UNION 2232 OF THE UBCT ↗
- Who funds MID-SOUTH CARPENTERS REGIONAL COUNCIL TRAINING TRUST FUND ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE LEAGUE OF MUSIC CITY ↗
- Who funds CARPENTERS HELPING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL SOUTH CARPENTERS & MILLWRIGHTS TRAINING TRUST FUND ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Southern States Millwright Regional Council 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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