· Public charity
Tradesfutures
To develop, promote and improve apprenticeship readiness programs, which are educational programs that provide students with the fundamental skills and knowledge necessary to choose, obtain and succeed in a formal apprenticeship in the construction industry.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $1,344,780 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,110,446 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $765,666 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 · FY2024
- $10k–50k5 grants · $175k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $866k
- $250k+1 grant · $303k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MISSOURI WORKS INITIATIVE | $303,074 |
| NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE | $243,930 |
| PWT UNITED | $129,625 |
| OHIO STATE BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION TRADES COUNCIL | $94,234 |
| BUILDING PATHWAYS SOUTH | $92,952 |
| ARIZONA BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION TRADES COUNCIL | $84,230 |
| HIRE 360 | $73,969 |
| GEORGIA BUILDING TRADES ACADEMY | $73,865 |
| HOUSTON GULF COAST BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION TRADES COUNCIL | $73,611 |
| ROCHESTER CAREERS IN CONSTRUCTION | $48,736 |
| URBAN GREEN COUNCIL | $42,560 |
| EMPOWHER INSTITUTE | $42,000 |
| ROWAN UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| NORTH DAKOTA STATE BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION TRADES COUNCIL | $16,994 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $310k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $473k 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
- MWMISSOURI WORKS INITIATIVE2× · 2023–2024 · $407k · revenue +71%
- NUNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $310k · revenue +4%
COALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND INC2× · 2023–2024 · $112k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- NENONTRADITIONAL EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMENgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue +51%
- EDECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP OF ALABAMA INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +75%
- MAMILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGEone grant, 2022 · $68k
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.
ABC/Greater Michigan chapter is the publicly recognized leader in the construction industry. We support our members' success by providing technologically advanced assistance in the areas of education, business, and workforce development.…
The mission of ACCE is to be a leading advocate of quality construction programs and to promote, support, and accredit quality construction education programs in colleges and universities.
The council's mission is to further protect the rights of members of the building and constructions trades industry in the state of washington.
To create a better working environment for the construction industry and its members.
As an interdependent alliance of construction industry leaders, we are collectively committed to positively impacting the future of the industry by strengthening the safe, skilled, and sustainable craft workforce pipeline.
To aid and assist all affiliated local unions in the building and construction trades department.
To promote the advancement of the construction industry and free enterprise
The purpose of the association is to represent its members in the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements with representatives of labor, providing for terms and conditions of employment and the administration of grievances. in…
Improve wages, benefits and working conditions for members
ASC is a professional association for the development and advancement of construction education where the sharing of ideas and knowledge inspires guides and promotes excellence in curricula teaching research and service.
Promote the building and contracting trade.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ohio State Building and Construction Trades Council and the most unlike its peers is Nontraditional Employment for Women. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 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 MISSOURI WORKS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds EMPOWHER Inc ↗
- Who funds NONTRADITIONAL EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMEN ↗
- Who funds People Working Together Hockinson SCHOOLS PARENT GROUP - PWT ↗
- Who funds ROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA BUILDING TRADES ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP OF ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION TRADES COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER CAREERS IN CONSTRUCTION INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN GREEN COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds AZ State Bldg & Construction Trades ↗
- Who funds HIRE360 ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON GULF COAST BUILDING CONSTRUCTION TRADES COUNCI ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA A&M UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ND STATE BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION TRADES COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Miles College Inc ↗
- Who funds LAWSON STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Tom Joyner Foundation Inc · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · 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 Tradesfutures 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.
- Rowan University Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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.