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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.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$303k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Employment$2.0MEducation$227kHuman Services$165k
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $1,344,780, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,110,446 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $765,666 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $175k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $866k
  • $250k+1 grant · $303k
$73,969
Median grant
12
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $244k → 17%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $66k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ND
IL
WI
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CA
MO
AZ
AL
GA
TX
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 8 repeat orgs$901k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
7

Total granted

$1.4M
$428k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+51%

Still filing today

100%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $473k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24
EmploymentEducationHuman ServicesPublic BenefitEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MW
    MISSOURI WORKS INITIATIVE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $407k · revenue +71%
  • NU
    NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $310k · revenue +4%
  • COALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $112k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • NE
    NONTRADITIONAL EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMENgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue +51%
  • ED
    ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP OF ALABAMA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +75%
  • MA
    MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE
    one grant, 2022 · $68k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
Construction Career Collaborative

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.

Public Benefit
2
American Council for Construction Education Inc

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.

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3
West Virginia State Building & Construction Trade Council Afl-Cio

To aid and assist all affiliated local unions in the building and construction trades department.

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4
Associated Builders & Contractors - Greater Michigan Chapter

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.…

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5
Washington State Building & Construction Trades Council

The council's mission is to further protect the rights of members of the building and constructions trades industry in the state of washington.

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6
Associated Schools of Construction

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.

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7
Union Institute & University

Union Institute & University educates highly motivated adults who seek academic programs to engage, enlighten, and empower them to pursue professional goals and a lifetime of learning and service. Offering accredited bachelors, masters,…

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8
Careers in Construction Sw Washington
Recreation & Sports
9
Dixie Technical College

Train students to master essential skills they will take directly to the workforce enabling them to support their families strengthen the community and contribute to local industry while advancing their careers.

Education
10
Michigan State University Administrative Professional Assoc

An organization of professional staff at michigan state university whose main purpose is for collective bargaining. dues are collected from members to provide communication services, pay for bargaining, training, grievance, arbitration…

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11
Jackson State University Development Foundation Inc

To provide financial support to the JSU academic programs, student scholarships as well as general university support.

Education
12
Az State American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organization

To encourage the formation of Local Trades and Labor Unions and to help working men and women achieve higher standards of living and working conditions in the state of Arizona.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alabama State University Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Houston Gulf Coast Building Construction Trades Counci. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 21 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
14/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MISSOURI WORKS INITIATIVE: $407,459 · EmploymentMISSOURI WORKS INITIATIVENONTRADITIONAL EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMEN: $200,000 · EmploymentNONTRADITIONAL EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMENGEORGIA BUILDING TRADES ACADEMY: $103,080 · EmploymentGEORGIA BUILDING TRADES ACADEMYROCHESTER CAREERS IN CONSTRUCTION INC: $93,702 · EmploymentROCHESTER CAREERS IN CONSTRUCTION INCHIRE360: $73,969 · EmploymentHIRE360People Working Together Hockinson SCHOOLS PARENT GROUP - PWT: $129,625 · OtherPeople Working Together Hocki…ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP OF ALABAMA INC: $100,000 · OtherECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS…OHIO STATE BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION TRADES COUNCIL: $94,234 · OtherOHIO STATE BUILDING AND CONST…AZ State Bldg & Construction Trades: $84,230 · OtherAZ State Bldg & Construction …HOUSTON GULF COAST BUILDING CONSTRUCTION TRADES COUNCI: $73,611 · OtherHOUSTON GULF COAST BUILDING C…MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $67,750 · OtherMILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLL…+4 more: $64,464 · Other+4 moreEMPOWHER Inc: $207,000 · EducationEMPOWHER IncROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 · EducationROWAN UNIVERSITY…Miles College Inc: $12,714 · EducationNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $310,114 · Human ServicesNATIONAL URBAN…COALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND INC: $112,463 · Public BenefitURBAN GREEN COUNCIL: $85,120 · Environment
Employment$878,210Other$613,914Education$344,714Human Services$310,114Public Benefit$112,463Environment$85,120

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 budgetMISSOURI WORKS INITIATIVE: $407,459 over 2y, 17% of budgetNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $310,114 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEMPOWHER Inc: $207,000 over 2y, 69% of budgetNONTRADITIONAL EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMEN: $200,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND INC: $112,463 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetGEORGIA BUILDING TRADES ACADEMY: $103,080 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP OF ALABAMA INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetOHIO STATE BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION TRADES COUNCIL: $94,234 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetROCHESTER CAREERS IN CONSTRUCTION INC: $93,702 over 2y, 43% of budgetURBAN GREEN COUNCIL: $85,120 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetAZ State Bldg & Construction Trades: $84,230 over 1y, 12% of budgetHIRE360: $73,969 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHOUSTON GULF COAST BUILDING CONSTRUCTION TRADES COUNCI: $73,611 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $19,576 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALABAMA A&M UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $17,894 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetND STATE BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION TRADES COUNCIL: $16,994 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetMiles College Inc: $12,714 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAWSON STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 7.5% 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.

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.

Tom Joyner Foundation…Alabama Power Foundat…Amazonsmile Foundation
Tom Joyner Foundation IncTX13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tom Joyner Foundation Inc · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · 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 Tradesfutures funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tradesfutures. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Rowan University Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 21 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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