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Steamfitters Local Union No 420

A close affiliation of all workers and technicians engaged in the steamfitting/pipefitting trade; heating, ventilation/air conditioning, instrument calibration, valve repair, energy management, and service and maintenance; the furtherance of the interests of its members by education and cooperation; the making of agreements with…

$2.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
49
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$204k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2025 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 49 grants below total $2,024,980 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,650,570 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $625,590 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 $10k11 grants · $87k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $588k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.4M
$16,232
Median grant
6
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIVE STAR INC$203,515
JLYNN LLC$176,160
Individual grant recipient$175,204
Individual grant recipient$133,450
Individual grant recipient$117,299
Individual grant recipient$112,884
SOUTHLAND INDUSTRIES$106,800
Individual grant recipient$72,600
WF SMITH INC$70,824
Individual grant recipient$65,700
Individual grant recipient$61,280
Individual grant recipient$54,430
ELLIOT-LEWIS CORPORATION$41,361
BURKHARDT MECHANICAL INC$40,848
CHADWICK SERVICE COMPANY$39,745
02The need
02

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:

Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%RYAN'S CASE FOR SMILES: $25k → 6%98 CARES: $15k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

03Your 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.

1
Seiu Healthcare Pa Health and Welfare Fund

The fund is a mutliemployer plan established to provide health and welfare benefits to eligible participants and their dependents under the terms of various collective bargaining agreements between the employers and seiu healthcare pa…

2
Ufcw Local 152 Health & Welfare Fund

The organization is the trust for a multiemployer welfare benefit plan that covers eligible members and their dependents, established pursuant to various collective bargaining agreements.

3
Steamfitters Local Union No 420

A close affiliation of all workers and technicians engaged in the steamfitting/pipefitting trade; heating, ventilation/air conditioning, instrument calibration, valve repair, energy management, and service and maintenance; the furtherance…

4
Ibew Local 8 Scholarship Fund

To provide k-12 non-public education and college education scholarships for ibew local 8 members' dependents

Education
5
Laborers' Local 300 Scholarship Fund

To provide scholarships for families of local union members.

Education
6
Ufcw Unions & Employers Health & Welfare Plan of Central Ohio

To provide for a uniform health and welfare program for employees employed under certain collective bargaining agreements.

7
American Federation of Labor & Phila Building Trades Council Afl-Cio

The objectives of the philadelphia building trades council are to enlist the voluntary cooperation and support of every eligible local union to the end that wage scales and desirable working conditions may be established and maintained in…

8
Plumbers Local Union No 200 Scholarship Fund

The purpose of the fund is to provide scholarships for the children of the members of plumbers local union no. 200 of the united association of journeymen and apprentices of the plumbing and pipe fitting industry of the united states and…

Education
9
Ua Local 38 Scholarship Trust Fund of San Francisco Marin Sonoma Mendocino

The fund was established by the terms of a trust agreement for the purpose of providing scholarships for attendance in colleges or universities by dependents of eligible participants in this multiemployer plan.

Membership Benefit
10
Iuoe Local 94 94A Scholarship Fund

The purpose of the organization is to provide scholarships for children of the members of iuoe local 94.

Education
11
Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 357 Training Fund

Education and hands-on training to trade apprentices and to journeymen plumbers.

Education
12
Plumbers and Pipefitters Local Apprentice and Training Trust Fund

The Fund provides education and training to apprentices and journeymen as provided by the collective bargaining agreement.

Employment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Philadelphia Delaware and Susquehanna Valley and the most unlike its peers is Transformation to Recovery. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

14 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 49 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
6/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FIVE STAR INC — $203,515 · OtherFIVE STAR INCJLYNN LLC — $176,160 · OtherJLYNN LLCIndividual grant recipient — $175,204 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $133,450 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $117,299 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $112,884 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSOUTHLAND INDUSTRIES — $106,800 · OtherSOUTHLAND INDUSTRIESIndividual grant recipient — $72,600 · OtherWF SMITH INC — $70,824 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $65,700 · Other+27 more — $654,270 · Other+27 moreRYAN'S CASE FOR SMILES — $25,000 · Human Services98 CARES — $15,000 · Human ServicesHOLY FAMILY UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · EducationSimon Youth Foundation Inc — $10,000 · EducationSCHOLARSHIP FUND OF STEAMFITTERS LU 420 — $9,374 · EducationUNITED ASSOCIATION SCHOLARSHIP TRUST — $8,000 · EducationTransformation to Recovery — $13,500 · HealthELEVATOR CONSTRUCTORS LOCAL 5 CHARITABLE FUND — $10,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF PHILADELPHIA DELAWARE AND SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY — $8,000 · HealthUA CHARITABLE FUND TRUST — $10,000 · Public Safety & DisasterST PATRICK'S DAY OBSERVANCE ASSOCIATION — $9,900 · InternationalPHILADELPHIA BUILDING TRADES CHARITY FUND — $7,500 · Philanthropy
Other$1,888,706Human Services$40,000Education$37,374Health$31,500Public Safety & Disaster$10,000International$9,900Philanthropy$7,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHOLY FAMILY UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSimon Youth Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetELEVATOR CONSTRUCTORS LOCAL 5 CHARITABLE FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetSCHOLARSHIP FUND OF STEAMFITTERS LU 420 — $9,374 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetPHILADELPHIA BUILDING TRADES CHARITY FUND — $7,500 over 1y, 5.9% of budget
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 RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PHILADELPHIA REGION
  • Who funds RYAN'S CASE FOR SMILES
  • Who funds 98 CARES
  • Who funds Transformation to Recovery
  • Who funds HOLY FAMILY UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds Simon Youth Foundation Inc
  • Who funds ELEVATOR CONSTRUCTORS LOCAL 5 CHARITABLE FUND
  • Who funds UA CHARITABLE FUND TRUST
  • Who funds ST PATRICK'S DAY OBSERVANCE ASSOCIATION

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.

Charities Aid Foundation AmericaVA9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Steamfitters Local Union No 420 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
202122232425
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 49 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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