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United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% 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
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 25 grants below total $7,351,149, the rows itemized in this filing. The $29,200,264 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $21,849,115 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

  • 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
DEVELOPMENT NOW FOR CHICAGO$1,000,000
MID-AMERICA CARPENTERS REGIONAL COUNCIL$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

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 (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. Its 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
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

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MO
WV
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
NC
DC
LA
TX
FL
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +18% for those 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 BenefitEducationCivil RightsEmploymentOther
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

  • 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

  • UT
    Unite the Country Now
    one grant, 2021 · $2.0M · 100% of their budget
  • HM
    HOUSE MAJORITY FORWARDgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2.0M · revenue +229%
  • PS
    PROGRESSIVE STATE LEADERS COMMITTEE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue +8%
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
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wisconsin Opportunity Coalition Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

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

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/72
Grantees still filing
40/72
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · OtherUnite the Country Now: $2,000,000 · OtherMID-AMERICA CARPENTERS REGIONAL COUNCIL: $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 & ShelterNATIONAL REDISTRICTING FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · Civil RightsWISCONSIN OPPORTUNITY COALITION INC: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetUnite the Country Now: $2,000,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetHOUSE MAJORITY FORWARD: $2,000,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetJARED ALLENS HOMES FOR WOUNDED WARRIORS: $2,000,000 over 3y, 30% 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 budgetDEVELOPMENT NOW FOR CHICAGO: $1,000,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPROGRESSIVE STATE LEADERS COMMITTEE INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetBBT INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetNATIONAL REDISTRICTING FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetWISCONSIN OPPORTUNITY COALITION INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 21% 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 budgetACCELERATOR FOR AMERICA: $500,000 over 1y, 52% of budgetAmericans for a Secure Future: $500,000 over 1y, 6.2% 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 budgetBUILD BETTER LA: $250,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetNEVADA ALLIANCE: $250,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAlliance to Fight for Health Care: $240,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetON YOUR SIDE OHIO: $200,000 over 2y, 50% of budgetA BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER INC: $200,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY COALITION ACTION FUND: $100,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetFIGHT CORPORATE MONOPOLIES: $100,000 over 1y, 76% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEVADANS FOR REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM: $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCALIFORNIANS FOR SAFE DRINKING WATER AND WILDFIRE PREVENTION: $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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 budgetPROGRESS NOW INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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

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 United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
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 91 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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