Washington, D.C. · Public charity

United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America

To organize all workers for social and economic advancement of their condition and status. To provide death and disability benefits for members and spouses.

$29M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 25
Itemized grants FY2024: 18
Organizations funded FY2023: 28%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $7.4M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $250,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $1,000,000
Organizations funded a year: 16 to 30; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 15
Total assets, FY2024: $816M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 28% of the organizations United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Community ImprovementCivil RightsEducationHealthPublic BenefitHousing & ShelterOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	25	$7.4M	44%
FY2023	18	$8.5M	28%
FY2022	30	$16M	50%
FY2021	25	$10M	40%
FY2020	26	$11M	62%
FY2019	16	$1.7M	38%
FY2018	16	$2.8M	25%
FY2017	22	$5.3M	n/a

98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$14MEmployment$12MPhilanthropy$11MPublic Benefit$11MCommunity Improvement$6.1MCivil Rights$2.7MHousing & Shelter$2.5MHuman Services$1.2MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Strategic Victory Fund	$10,500,000	4	15%
Central South Carpenters Regional Council	$4,038,779	8	15%
Florida Carpenters Regional Council	$3,969,703	8	22%
North Central States Regional Council of Carpenters	$3,312,768	6	2%
Map USA	$3,000,000	2	100%
St Louis-Kansas City Carpenters Regional Council	$2,640,101	5	3%
Carpenters Industrial Council Ubc	$2,155,165	2	n/a
Unite the Country Now	$2,000,000	1	100%
House Majority Forward	$2,000,000	1	7%
Jared Allens Homes for Wounded Warriors	$2,000,000	3	30%

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All grantees of United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Strategic Victory Fund	$10,500,000	4	15%
Central South Carpenters Regional Council	$4,038,779	8	15%
Florida Carpenters Regional Council	$3,969,703	8	22%
North Central States Regional Council of Carpenters	$3,312,768	6	2%
Map USA	$3,000,000	2	100%
St Louis-Kansas City Carpenters Regional Council	$2,640,101	5	3%
Carpenters Industrial Council Ubc	$2,155,165	2	n/a
Unite the Country Now	$2,000,000	1	100%
House Majority Forward	$2,000,000	1	7%
Jared Allens Homes for Wounded Warriors	$2,000,000	3	30%
Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council	$2,000,000	2	n/a
Central Midwest Regional Council of Carpenters	$1,912,500	4	1%
Michigan Regional Council of Carpenters	$1,900,236	7	3%
Pci	$1,717,648	3	n/a
Republican Main Street Partnership	$1,240,000	7	43%
Development Now for Chicago	$1,000,000	1	1%
Progressive State Leaders Committee Inc	$1,000,000	1	21%
Bbt Inc	$1,000,000	1	2%
Unite Here Action Fund	$1,000,000	1	n/a
National Redistricting Foundation	$1,000,000	1	10%
Majority Forward	$1,000,000	1	n/a
Wisconsin Opportunity Coalition Inc	$1,000,000	1	21%
We Are Missouri	$750,000	1	n/a
Kansas Values Institute	$650,000	2	12%
Citizens Trade Campaign	$587,500	8	47%
Eastern Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters	$583,333	3	0%
Ubc and Joiners of America Eastern District	$557,226	3	33%
Accelerator for America	$500,000	1	52%
Americans for a Secure Future	$500,000	1	6%
Carpenters Helping Hands Inc	$407,606	1	19%
Yes on Prop 2 Californians for Quality Schools	$350,000	1	3%
Yes on Quality Schools	$325,000	2	2%
Economic Policy Institute	$300,000	5	1%
Build Better La	$250,000	1	7%
Central Midwest Regional Council of Carpenters Supplemental Unemployment Be	$250,000	1	n/a
Nevada Alliance	$250,000	1	1%
Alliance to Fight for Health Care	$240,000	3	13%
Democracy Alliance	$210,000	3	n/a
Generation Now	$210,000	1	n/a
On Your Side Ohio	$200,000	2	50%
A Better Wisconsin Together Inc	$200,000	1	4%
Solid Platforms Inc (Ubc International Mechanical Insulation Mentorship Pro	$172,829	3	n/a
University of Nevada Las Vegas Foundation	$150,000	1	0%
Community Coalition Action Fund	$100,000	1	45%
Fight Corporate Monopolies	$100,000	1	76%
Nevadans for Reproductive Freedom	$100,000	1	1%
Californians for Safe Drinking Water and Wildfire Prevention	$100,000	1	1%
Center for Military Recruitment Assessment and Veterans Employment	$72,500	7	0%
John Burton Advocates for Youth	$69,999	5	2%
Italian American Democratic Leadership Council	$50,000	1	n/a
Patriot Majority USA	$50,000	1	1%
Citizens for Better Transportation	$50,000	1	n/a
Law Forward Inc	$50,000	1	6%
University of Oregon Foundation	$50,000	1	0%
Robert F Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights	$49,000	3	0%
Unite Here	$39,226	1	0%
California Housing Coalition	$35,000	1	n/a
Building Jobs and Opportunity	$32,500	1	14%
The Cooper Foundation Inc	$30,000	1	0%
Progress Now Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Nacabctd Labor-Management Cooperation Trust Fund	$25,000	1	14%
Northern California Carpenters Relief Fund	$25,000	1	n/a
Gosnold Inc	$25,000	1	0%
University of Maryland College Park	$24,000	2	n/a
Americas Gold Star Families	$20,000	2	8%
Research Foundation for the Treatment of Ovarian Cancer Inc	$20,000	2	4%
Construction Owners Association of America Inc	$20,000	2	1%
Kalkreuth Roofing Charities Inc	$19,500	2	24%
State Building & Construction Trades Council of California	$17,477	1	0%
Institute for Construction Employment Research	$15,000	1	6%
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy	$12,500	1	0%
International Association of Venue Managers Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Public Citizen Foundation Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Jobs with Justice Education Fund	$10,000	1	0%
National Employment Law Project	$10,000	1	0%
Craig Hospital Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
Building and Construction Trades Department Afl-Cio	$10,000	1	0%
Eastern Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters Scholarship Fd a Nj Np Cor	$7,500	1	2%
National Democratic Institute for International Affairs	$5,000	1	0%

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.

United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 10 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 64 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 64.

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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.

International Brotherhood of Electrical WorkersDC32.3× affinity13 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers · Sixteen Thirty Fund · American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees · National Education Association of the United States · United Food and Commercial Workers International Union · America Votes · Hopewell Fund · Open Society Action Fund Inc · Our American Future Action · Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc · New Venture Fund · Our Children Our Future

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.

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About United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America

How much does United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America give?: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America reported 25 itemized grants totaling $7,351,149, out of $29,200,264 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 30 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (22%), Employment (18%), Philanthropy (18%).
Who are United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Strategic Victory Fund ($11M), Central South Carpenters Regional Council ($4.0M), Florida Carpenters Regional Council ($4.0M).
Does United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Sixteen Thirty Fund, American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees.
Where is United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America based?: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America is based in DC.