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Trimmer Construction Education Foundation

TRIMMER CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION FOUNDATION, inc.

$516k
Granted FY2017
11
Grants FY2017
11
States reached
$175k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01FY2017 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $493,335, the rows itemized in this filing. The $516,335 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $23,000 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 · FY2017

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $157k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $331k
$25,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
ABC - MINNESOTANORTH DAKOTA CHAPTER$25,000
ACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF AMERICA INC$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
02The need
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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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–17) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ABC - MINNESOTANORTH DAKOTA CHAPTER: $25k → 11%ABC - SAN DIEGO: $106k → 11%ABC - EMPIRE STATE CHAPTER: $12k → 14%ABC - CENTRAL TEXAS CHAPTER: $10k → 10%ABC - NEW MEXICO CHATPER: $20k → 14%ABC - ARKANSAS CHAPTER: $50k → 17%ASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS'S INC: $175k → 14%ABC - ALABAMA CHAPTER: $25k → 16%ABC - CONNECTICUT CHAPTER: $5k → 11%ABC - CENTRAL OHIO CHAPTER: $40k → 15%ACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF AMERICA INC: $25k → 8%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

MN
NY
OH
CT
CA
MD
NM
AR
DC
AL
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 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
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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2
Associated Builders and Contractors

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…

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3
Associated Builders & Contractors Oklahoma Chapter

To promote the advancement of the construction industry and free enterprise

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4
Associated Builders & Contractors New Orleans - Bayou Chapter

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.

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5
Associated Builders & Contractors of South Texas Inc

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.

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6
Associated Builders and Contractors Eastern Pa Chapter Inc

Trade association

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7
Associated Builders & Contractors of Louisiana Incorporated

To promote and protect the merit shop philosophy and the principles of the free enterprise system in the construction industry.

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8
Associated Builders and Contractors Ohio Valley Chapter

To provide support, through education and communication, to members.

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9
Associated Builders & Contractors of Southern California

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…

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10
Associated Builders & Contractors Inc

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.

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11
Associated Builders & Contractors Inc

Promote and protect the merit shop philosophy and the principles of the free enterprise system in the construction industry.

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12
Associated Builders & Contractors Inc

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Associated Builders and Contractors Inc; 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.
03the grantee network

11 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.

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)
11/11
Grantees still filing
11/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS INC: $175,000 · OtherASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS INCASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS OF SAN DIEGO INC: $105,875 · OtherASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS OF SAN DIEGO INCASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS ARKANSAS INC: $50,000 · OtherASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS ARKANSAS INCASSOCIATED BUILDERS & CONTRACTORS CENTRAL OHIO CHAPTER: $40,000 · OtherASSOCIATED BUILDERS & CONTRACTORS CENTRAL OHIO CHAPTERMINNESOTA CHAPTER OF ASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS INC: $25,000 · OtherMINNESOTA CHAPTER OF ASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS INCASSOCIATED BUILDERS & CONTRACTORS OF ALABAMA INC: $25,000 · OtherASSOCIATED BUILDERS & CONTRACTORS OF ALABAMA INCTHE NM CHAPTER OF ASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS INC: $20,000 · Other+3 more: $27,460 · Other+3 moreACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF AMERICA INC: $25,000 · Education
Other$468,335Education$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS INC: $175,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS OF SAN DIEGO INC: $105,875 over 1y, 11% of budgetASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS ARKANSAS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetASSOCIATED BUILDERS & CONTRACTORS CENTRAL OHIO CHAPTER: $40,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF AMERICA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMINNESOTA CHAPTER OF ASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetASSOCIATED BUILDERS & CONTRACTORS OF ALABAMA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE NM CHAPTER OF ASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS INC: $12,460 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetASSOCIATED BUILDERS & CONTRACTORS CENTRAL TEXAS CHAPTER I: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Associated Builders a…
Associated Builders and Contractors IncDC19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Associated Builders and Contractors Inc

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 Trimmer Construction Education Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Trimmer Construction Education Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Trimmer Construction Education Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Trimmer Construction Education Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 11 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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