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United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America

To organize all workers for social and economic advancement of their condition and status.

$29M
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 81% of UNITED BROTHERHOOD OF CARPENTERS AND JOINERS OF AMERICA’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 25 grants below total $7,351,149 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $29,200,264 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $21,849,115 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

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $790k
  • $250k+13 grants · $6.5M
$250,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$816M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MID-AMERICA CARPENTERS REGIONAL COUNCIL$1,000,000
DEVELOPMENT NOW FOR CHICAGO$1,000,000
FLORIDA CARPENTERS REGIONAL COUNCIL$721,268
PCI$600,200
NORTH CENTRAL STATES REGIONAL COUNCIL OF CARPENTERS$543,000
JARED ALLEN'S HOMES FOR WOUNDED WARRIORS$500,000
MICHIGAN REGIONAL COUNCIL OF CARPENTERS$394,181
CALIFORNIANS FOR QUALITY SCHOOLS$350,000
CENTRAL SOUTH CARPENTERS REGIONAL COUNCIL$325,000
KANSAS VALUES INSTITUTE$300,000
NEVADA ALLIANCE$250,000
CENTRAL MIDWEST REG COUNCIL OF CARPENTERS$250,000
DEFENDERS OF LIBERTY$250,000
A BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER INC$200,000
ALLIANCE TO FIGHT FOR HEALTH CARE$120,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%NCC RELIEF FUND: $25k → 10%AMERICA'S GOLD STAR FAMILIES: $10k → 14%AMERICA'S GOLD STAR FAMILIES: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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MN
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WI
MI
NY
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OR
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IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
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VA
MD
AZ
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LA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$45M · 31 repeat orgs$18M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

31 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
47

Total granted

$45M
$16M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+18%

Still filing today

74%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.6M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementHealthPublic BenefitCivil RightsEducationEmploymentOther

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

  • CS
    CENTRAL SOUTH CARPENTERS REGIONAL COUNCIL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +172%
  • MU
    MAP USA
    2× · 2020–2021 · $3.0M · revenue +322% · 100% of their budget
  • SL
    ST LOUIS-KANSAS CITY CARPENTERS REGIONAL COUNCIL
    5× · 2017–2021 · $2.6M · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • HM
    HOUSE MAJORITY FORWARDgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2.0M · revenue +229%
  • UT
    Unite the Country Now
    one grant, 2021 · $2.0M · 100% of their budget
  • UH
    UNITE HERE ACTION FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue -26%

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

04Your field

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.

1
North Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters

Promote union construction and represent the interests of our members

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2
The Connecticut Construction Industries Association Inc

All activities conducted by the association are to enable it to:a. establish a better understanding between the members and companies in the construction and related industries.b. foster reasonable and just regulations by governments c.…

Employment
3
Laborers International Union of State of Mi

Collective bargaining and representation

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4
Missouri Jobs With Justice Voter Action

To develop and advocate for legislation, regulations, ballot initiatives, and government programs as a voice of the working class, to promote social justice, and to stimulate the economy; and, to conduct research, educate the public, and…

Civil Rights
5
American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Orgs

To organize all workers for the economic, moral and social advancement of their condition and status.

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6
Laborers' Int'l Union of North America District Council of Chicago

To promote unity of action in dealing with employers and to coordinate and consolidate the activities of its various affiliated local unions so they can work in a harmonious and united way.

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7
University of Michigan

To represent and advocate for its member physicians.

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8
California State Council of Service Employees

The council coordinated the efforts of affiliated local unions and assisted their organizations work, bettering the working conditions of their members.

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9
The National Right to Work Committee

The committee is a nonprofit, tax-exempt, educational-lobbying organization opposing compulsory unionism in all its forms and supporting the right of all people to obtain and hold a job without being forced to join a labor union or pay…

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10
The Laborers Northwest Regional Organizing Coalition

The northwest regional organizing coalition (nroc) is established and exists to increase union participation in the industries in which the laborers' international union of north america (liuna!) currently represents workers. it is nroc's…

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11
Contra Costa Labor Council Afl-Cio

The council is a federation of approximately 85 affiliated unions. the organizaton engages in a wide range of activities. the activities are designed to improve the lives of working families, to bring economic justice to the workplace, and…

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12
California Chamber of Commerce

Represent members and cal employers to members of cal legislature and other agencies of state government through in-house legislative analysts, lobbying staff, and contract lobbyists. cal chamber publishes books and software related to…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wisconsin Opportunity Coalition Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gosnold Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyMilitary Veterans SupportAffordable Housing Developm…Policy Research and AdvocacyHealth Access Advocacy and …Addiction Recovery Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%10%<5yr14%17%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%17%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%10%<5yr14%23%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%7%20–35yr13%5%35–55yr16%38%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/81
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,484

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

72 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 72 of the 91 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/72
Grantees still filing
39/72
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

STRATEGIC VICTORY FUND — $10,500,000 · OtherSTRATEGIC VICTORY FUNDCENTRAL SOUTH CARPENTERS REGIONAL COUNCIL — $4,038,779 · OtherCENTRAL SOUTH CARPENTERS REGIONAL COUNCILFLORIDA CARPENTERS REGIONAL COUNCIL — $3,969,703 · OtherFLORIDA CARPENTERS REGIONAL COUNCILNORTH CENTRAL STATES REGIONAL COUNCIL OF CARPENTERS — $3,312,768 · OtherNORTH CENTRAL STATES REGIONAL COUNCIL OF CARPENTERSMAP USA — $3,000,000 · OtherMAP USAST LOUIS-KANSAS CITY CARPENTERS REGIONAL COUNCIL — $2,640,101 · OtherCARPENTERS INDUSTRIAL COUNCIL UBC — $2,155,165 · OtherMID-AMERICA CARPENTERS REGIONAL COUNCIL — $2,000,000 · OtherUnite the Country Now — $2,000,000 · OtherCENTRAL MIDWEST REGIONAL COUNCIL OF CARPENTERS — $1,912,500 · OtherMICHIGAN REGIONAL COUNCIL OF CARPENTERS — $1,900,236 · OtherPCI — $1,717,648 · Other+57 more — $12,287,196 · Other+57 moreHOUSE MAJORITY FORWARD — $2,000,000 · Community ImprovementDEVELOPMENT NOW FOR CHICAGO — $1,000,000 · Community ImprovementKANSAS VALUES INSTITUTE — $650,000 · Community ImprovementCITIZENS TRADE CAMPAIGN — $587,500 · Community Improvement+2 more — $70,000 · Community ImprovementJARED ALLENS HOMES FOR WOUNDED WARRIORS — $2,000,000 · Housing & ShelterAlliance to Fight for Health Care — $240,000 · Housing & ShelterWISCONSIN OPPORTUNITY COALITION INC — $1,000,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL REDISTRICTING FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 · Civil RightsA BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER INC — $200,000 · Civil Rights+1 more — $25,000 · Civil RightsREPUBLICAN MAIN STREET PARTNERSHIP — $1,240,000 · Public BenefitACCELERATOR FOR AMERICA — $500,000 · Public BenefitON YOUR SIDE OHIO — $200,000 · Public Benefit+1 more — $10,000 · Public BenefitUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION — $150,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $100,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION — $50,000 · EducationINSTITUTE FOR CONSTRUCTION EMPLOYMENT RESEARCH — $15,000 · Education+1 more — $7,500 · EducationECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE — $300,000 · Social Science
Other$51,434,096Community Improvement$4,307,500Housing & Shelter$2,240,000Civil Rights$2,225,000Public Benefit$1,950,000Education$322,500Social Science$300,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSTRATEGIC VICTORY FUND — $10,500,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetCENTRAL SOUTH CARPENTERS REGIONAL COUNCIL — $4,038,779 over 8y, 15% of budgetFLORIDA CARPENTERS REGIONAL COUNCIL — $3,969,703 over 8y, 22% of budgetNORTH CENTRAL STATES REGIONAL COUNCIL OF CARPENTERS — $3,312,768 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetMAP USA — $3,000,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetST LOUIS-KANSAS CITY CARPENTERS REGIONAL COUNCIL — $2,640,101 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetJARED ALLENS HOMES FOR WOUNDED WARRIORS — $2,000,000 over 3y, 30% of budgetHOUSE MAJORITY FORWARD — $2,000,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetUnite the Country Now — $2,000,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetCENTRAL MIDWEST REGIONAL COUNCIL OF CARPENTERS — $1,912,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetMICHIGAN REGIONAL COUNCIL OF CARPENTERS — $1,900,236 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetREPUBLICAN MAIN STREET PARTNERSHIP — $1,240,000 over 7y, 43% of budgetWISCONSIN OPPORTUNITY COALITION INC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetNATIONAL REDISTRICTING FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetPROGRESSIVE STATE LEADERS COMMITTEE INC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetBBT INC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetDEVELOPMENT NOW FOR CHICAGO — $1,000,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetKANSAS VALUES INSTITUTE — $650,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetCITIZENS TRADE CAMPAIGN — $587,500 over 8y, 47% of budgetEASTERN ATLANTIC STATES REGIONAL COUNCIL OF CARPENTERS — $583,333 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUBC AND JOINERS OF AMERICA EASTERN DISTRICT — $557,226 over 3y, 33% of budgetAmericans for a Secure Future — $500,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetACCELERATOR FOR AMERICA — $500,000 over 1y, 52% of budgetCARPENTERS HELPING HANDS INC — $407,606 over 1y, 19% of budgetYES ON PROP 2 CALIFORNIANS FOR QUALITY SCHOOLS — $350,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetYES ON QUALITY SCHOOLS — $325,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE — $300,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetNEVADA ALLIANCE — $250,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBUILD BETTER LA — $250,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetAlliance to Fight for Health Care — $240,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetA BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER INC — $200,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetON YOUR SIDE OHIO — $200,000 over 2y, 50% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFIGHT CORPORATE MONOPOLIES — $100,000 over 1y, 76% of budgetCOMMUNITY COALITION ACTION FUND — $100,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetCALIFORNIANS FOR SAFE DRINKING WATER AND WILDFIRE PREVENTION — $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNEVADANS FOR REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM — $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR MILITARY RECRUITMENT ASSESSMENT AND VETERANS EMPLOYMENT — $72,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetJohn Burton Advocates for Youth — $69,999 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetPATRIOT MAJORITY USA — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLAW FORWARD INC — $50,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROBERT F KENNEDY CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS — $49,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUNITE HERE — $39,226 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUILDING JOBS AND OPPORTUNITY — $32,500 over 1y, 14% of budgetTHE COOPER FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNACABCTD LABOR-MANAGEMENT COOPERATION TRUST FUND — $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budget
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.

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.

International Brother…Sixteen Thirty FundAmerican Federation o…National Education As…United Food and Comme…America VotesHopewell FundOpen Society Action F…Our American Future A…Communications Worker…New Venture FundOur Children Our Futu…
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

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 United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Gosnold Inc — 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 91 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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