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Trimmer Construction Education Foundation
TRIMMER CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION FOUNDATION, inc.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $493,335 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $516,335 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $23,000 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 · FY2017
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $157k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $331k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS'S INC | $175,000 |
| ABC - SAN DIEGO | $105,875 |
| ABC - ARKANSAS CHAPTER | $50,000 |
| ABC - CENTRAL OHIO CHAPTER | $40,000 |
| ABC - ALABAMA CHAPTER | $25,000 |
| ACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF AMERICA INC | $25,000 |
| ABC - MINNESOTANORTH DAKOTA CHAPTER | $25,000 |
| ABC - NEW MEXICO CHATPER | $20,000 |
| ABC - EMPIRE STATE CHAPTER | $12,460 |
| ABC - CENTRAL TEXAS CHAPTER | $10,000 |
| ABC - CONNECTICUT CHAPTER | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–17) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% 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.
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.…
Trade association representing merit shop construction and construction related firms. abc's membership represents all specialties within the us construction industry and is comprised primarily of firms that perform work in the industrial…
To promote the advancement of the construction industry and free enterprise
The abc new orleans/bayou chapter will provide superior programs and services to give its members a competitive advantage, to add value to the industry's clients and to enhance the lives of the industry's employees.
Will provide the best training, government and legal representation, and programs to ensure members a competitive advantage, add value to the industry's clients, promote a safe work place and enhance the lives of the industry's employees.
Trade association
To promote and protect the merit shop philosophy and the principles of the free enterprise system in the construction industry.
To provide support, through education and communication, to members.
Sponsor or participate in certification and other training programs in the construction industry for the benefit of employees of its participating employer members.to promote fair and open competition through premier education and training…
To provide educational services and support for builders and contractors in new hampshire and vermont and to represent the construction industry as a cohesive group of professionals.
Promote and protect the merit shop philosophy and the principles of the free enterprise system in the construction industry.
A. encourage, develop, and protect the building and construction industries. b. promote confidence and goodwill within the building and construction industries and between these industries and the general public. c. promote and make…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Associated Builders and Contractors Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ace Mentor Program of America Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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.
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 ASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS OF SAN DIEGO INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS ARKANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED BUILDERS & CONTRACTORS CENTRAL OHIO CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds ACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA CHAPTER OF ASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED BUILDERS & CONTRACTORS OF ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds THE NM CHAPTER OF ASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED BUILDERS & CONTRACTORS CENTRAL TEXAS CHAPTER I ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Associated Builders and Contractors Inc
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 Trimmer Construction Education Foundation 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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