· Public charity
Wall and Ceiling Alliance
Trade organization that promotes and advocates for the welfare of its members and industry.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $62,050 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $208,386 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $146,336 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 $10k3 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $42k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CARPENTERS THOMAS A MORTON MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FOUND | $30,000 |
| A CHANCE IN LIFE | $11,500 |
| SAN MATEO COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION | $8,500 |
| SILICON VALLEY MONTEREY BAY COUNCIL | $6,050 |
| ASSOCIATED SCHOOLS CONSTRUCTION | $6,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $84k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2023 · $92k · revenue +17%- ACA CHANCE IN LIFEINC4× · 2017–2024 · $34k · revenue +78%
- SFSAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA COUNCIL BSA4× · 2017–2020 · $24k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- NCNORTHERN CALIFORNIA CARPENTERS RELIEF FUNDone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue ×17
- AHAmerican Heart Association Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +33%
- IUINTERNATIONAL UNION OF PAINTERS AND ALLIED TRADESone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +4%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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Cifac is a non-profit 501(c)(6) membership organization that supports the coalition of concerned construction industry associations, contractors and labor unions that work to ensure state and local governments' compliance with the public…
To promote and protect the interest of our membership through collective bargaining, training, and organizing.
The mission of the boy scouts of america is to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetime by instilling in them the values of the scout oath and law.
To advance the knowledge and practice of engineering in the public interest. To provide member societies with reliable information that affects the engineering profession. To provide a forum for engineering societies to exchange views on…
To provide essential value to our members, their careers, our partners, and the public, asce will: facilitate the advancement of technology; encourage and provide the tools for lifelong learning; promote professionalism and the profession;…
Advancement of Civil Engineering Profession
To advance the knowledge and practice of engineering in the public interest. To provide member societies with reliable information that affects the engineering profession. To provide a forum for engineering societies to exchange views on…
A labor organization for the betterment and advancement of its members.
To advance the knowledge and practice of engineering in the public interest. To provide member societies with reliable information that affects the engineering profession. To provide a forum for engineering societies to exchange views on…
Trade association
To instill in young people; values, develop leadership skills, and ethical character as expressed in the scout oath and law.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northern California Carpentersthomas a Morton Memorial Scholarship Foundation and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CARPENTERSTHOMAS A MORTON MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CARPENTERS RELIEF FUND ↗
- Who funds A CHANCE IN LIFEINC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA COUNCIL BSA ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN GATE AREA COUNCIL #023 ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED SCHOOLS OF CONSTRUCTION ↗
- Who funds SAN MATEO COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL UNION OF PAINTERS AND ALLIED TRADES ↗
- Who funds Plasterers & Cement Masons Scholarship F ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 55 SILICON VALLEY MONTEREY BAY COUNCIL ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Northern California Carpenters Regional Council
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 Wall and Ceiling Alliance 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.
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.
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