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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 it funds
01FY2025 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 49 grants below total $2,024,980, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,650,570 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $625,590 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 $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

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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Its 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. Its 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
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 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
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…

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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.

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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…

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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.

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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…

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Philadelphia Delaware and Susquehanna Valley; 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, 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.

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

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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
5/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRYAN'S CASE FOR SMILES: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of 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
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.

  • 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 UA CHARITABLE FUND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds Simon Youth Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds ELEVATOR CONSTRUCTORS LOCAL 5 CHARITABLE FUND ↗
  • Who funds ST PATRICK'S DAY OBSERVANCE ASSOCIATION ↗

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 tightly interlocked group: 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

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 Steamfitters Local Union No 420 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Steamfitters Local Union No 420. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's 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, 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 49 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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