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United Brotherhood of Carpenters Local Union 157 at a glance

· Public charity

United Brotherhood of Carpenters Local Union 157

To provide representation on behalf of its members for purposes of collective bargaining with employers with respect to wages, benefits, hours, and working conditions.

$60k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$2.3MPublic Safety & Disaster$30kHuman Services$23kArts & Culture$17kEmployment$11kMembership Benefit$6kRecreation & Sports$5k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $11,650, the rows itemized in this filing. The $59,825 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $48,175 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.
$5,850
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE IRISH ECHO$5,850
LOCAL UNION 1556$5,800
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CROATION AMERICAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $6k → 13%SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF NEW YORK: $5k → 14%FRIENDS OF ST DOMINICS INC: $6k → 14%LOCAL 157 SCHLOARSHIP FUND: $1.1M → 17%LOCAL 926 SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $7k → 20%HEALING EMERGENCY AID RESPONSE TEAM: $30k → 16%SAINT DOMINIC'S: $5k → 14%CARPENTERS LOCAL 157 SCHOLARSHIP: $600k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $6k → 20%CARPENTERS LOCAL 157 SCHOLARSHIP: $400k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BROOKLYN AND QUEENS: $6k → 20%LOCAL 157 SCHLOARSHIP FUND: $60k → 17%CARPENTERS LOCAL 157 SCHOLARSHIP: $50k → 17%CARPENTERS LOCAL 157 SCHOLARSHIP: $50k → 17%CARPENTERS LOCAL 157 SCHOLARSHIP: $35k → 17%CARPENTERS LOCAL 157 SCHOLARSHIP: $10k → 17%LOCAL UNION 1556: $6k → 17%THE IRISH ECHO: $6k → 17%THE IRISH ECHO: $6k → 17%THE IRISH ECHO: $6k → 17%NYC HELMETS TO HARDHATS INC: $6k → 17%NYC HELMETS TO HARDHATS INC: $5k → 17%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.
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 5 repeat orgs$54k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
4

Total granted

$2.3M
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
0%

Still filing today

60%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPublic BenefitPhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • CL
    CARPENTERS' LOCAL 157 SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    6× · 2017–2023 · $2.3M · revenue +5% · 43% of their budget
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF ST DOMINIC'S INC
    2× · 2020–2024 · $11k · revenue +22%
  • NH
    NY HELMETS TO HARDHATS INC
    2× · 2017–2024 · $11k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • HE
    Healing Emergency Aid Response Team 911graduated
    one grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue +114%
  • L9
    LOCAL 926'S MARIA CONCILLO MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC
    one grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue -16%
  • CA
    CROATIAN AMERICAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue -40%
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
Iuec Local 1 of Nyc Scholarship Fund
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2
Local Union 1556 Scholarship Fund

To provide educational scholarships and grants.

Education
3
Local 39 Educational Scholarship Fund

To provide education scholarships to children and grandchildren of active members in good standing of stationary engineers local union #39.

Education
4
Laborers' Local 300 Scholarship Fund

To provide scholarships for families of local union members.

Education
5
Ua Local 630 Scholarship Fund

Award scholarships to children of members of Local 630

Education
6
Laborers Union Local 155

To operate the local union for the membership.

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7
Seiu Local 105 Health and Welfare Trust Fund

To provide medical and prescription benefits to participants on whose behalf employers contribute to the plan in accordance with their collective bargaining agreement.

Membership Benefit
8
Armand E Sabitoni Charitable Foundation

To provide financial assistance to the families of members of the laborers' international union of north america (liuna) who have died on the job

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9
New York State Building & Construction Trades Council Afl-Cio

Liason for organized labor.

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10
American Federation of Labor & Cong of Industrial Orgs Nyc Bldg % Const

Liason for organized labor in the new york city area.

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11
Massachusetts Afl-Cio Scholarship Corporation
Education
12
United Assoc of Journeymen & Apprentices Plumber & Steamfitters Local Union 157

Labor union

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ny Helmets to Hardhats Inc; the most unlike its peers is Croatian American Charitable Foundation 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

8 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. 8 of the 10 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CARPENTERS' LOCAL 157 SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $2,254,643 · EducationCARPENTERS' LOCAL 157 SCHOLARSHIP FUND+2 more: $13,000 · EducationIRISH ECHO NEWSPAPER: $17,450 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF BROOKLYN: $11,500 · OtherLOCAL UNION 1556: $5,800 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC: $5,000 · OtherHealing Emergency Aid Response Team 911: $30,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF ST DOMINIC'S INC: $11,000 · HealthNY HELMETS TO HARDHATS INC: $10,700 · Public Benefit
Education$2,267,643Other$39,750Philanthropy$30,000Health$11,000Public Benefit$10,700

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCARPENTERS' LOCAL 157 SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $2,254,643 over 6y, 43% of budgetFRIENDS OF ST DOMINIC'S INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNY HELMETS TO HARDHATS INC: $10,700 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLOCAL 926'S MARIA CONCILLO MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $6,600 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetCROATIAN AMERICAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $6,400 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetLOCAL UNION 1556: $5,800 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

New York City & Vicin…Carpenter Contractor …New York City Carpent…Plumbers Local Union …
New York City & Vicinity District Council UbcjaNY15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New York City & Vicinity District Council Ubcja · Carpenter Contractor Alliance of Metropolitan New York Inc · New York City Carpenters Relief and Charity Fund · Plumbers Local Union No 1

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 Local Union 157 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Brotherhood of Carpenters Local Union 157. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%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
    2report 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, FY20–25
    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 10 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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