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Wall and Ceiling Alliance

Trade organization that promotes and advocates for the welfare of its members and industry.

$208k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Education$130kArts & Culture$109kYouth Development$82kMembership Benefit$58kPublic Safety & Disaster$50kHealth$30kHuman Services$12k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $62,050, the rows itemized in this filing. The $208,386 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $146,336 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 $10k3 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $42k
$8,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%A CHANCE IN LIFE: $12k → 17%A CHANCE IN LIFE: $10k → 17%A CHANCE IN LIFE: $6k → 17%A CHANCE IN LIFE: $6k → 17%NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CARPENTER RELIEF FUND: $50k → 10%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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$369k · 7 repeat orgs$101k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
4

Total granted

$369k
$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+90%

Still filing today

86%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationOther
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

  • NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $92k · revenue +17%
  • AC
    A CHANCE IN LIFEINC
    4× · 2017–2024 · $34k · revenue +78%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA COUNCIL BSA
    4× · 2017–2020 · $24k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • NC
    NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CARPENTERS RELIEF FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue ×17
  • AH
    American Heart Association Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +33%
  • IU
    INTERNATIONAL UNION OF PAINTERS AND ALLIED TRADES
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +4%
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
Grand Canyon Council Inc Boy Scouts of America

The mission of scouting america is to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the scout oath and law. (continued on schedule o)programs of scouting america and grand…

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2
Construction Industry Force Account Council

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…

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3
Carpenters Industrial Council Ubc

To promote and protect the interest of our membership through collective bargaining, training, and organizing.

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4
Indian Nations Council Boy Scouts of America

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.

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5
American Society of Civil Engineers Sacramento Section

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…

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6
American Society of Civil Engineers Inc

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;…

Science & Tech
7
American Society of Civil Engineers National Capital Section

Advancement of Civil Engineering Profession

Science & Tech
8
American Society of Civil Engineers North Carolina Section

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…

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9
Western States Regional Council of Carpenters

A labor organization for the betterment and advancement of its members.

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10
American Society of Civil Engineers Louisiana Section

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…

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11
Associated Builders and Contractors Eastern Pa Chapter Inc

Trade association

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12
Bay-Lakes Council #635 Boy Scouts of America

To instill in young people; values, develop leadership skills, and ethical character as expressed in the scout oath and law.

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northern California Carpentersthomas a Morton Memorial Scholarship Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CARPENTERSTHOMAS A MORTON MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $165,000 · OtherNORTHERN CALIFORNIA CARPENTERSTHOMAS A MORTON MEMORIAL SCHOLAR…SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA COUNCIL BSA: $24,000 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA COUNCIL BSAGOLDEN GATE AREA COUNCIL #023: $20,000 · OtherGOLDEN GATE AREA COUNCIL #023ASSOCIATED SCHOOLS OF CONSTRUCTION: $18,000 · OtherASSOCIATED SCHOOLS OF CONSTRUCTIONSAN MATEO COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $17,000 · OtherSAN MATEO COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION+2 more: $13,550 · OtherNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $91,752 · Arts & CultureNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION I…NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CARPENTERS RELIEF FUND: $50,000 · Human ServicesNORTHERN CALIFORNIA …A CHANCE IN LIFEINC: $33,500 · Human ServicesA CHANCE IN LIFEINCAmerican Heart Association Inc: $30,000 · HealthPlasterers & Cement Masons Scholarship F: $7,000 · Education
Other$257,550Arts & Culture$91,752Human Services$83,500Health$30,000Education$7,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTHERN CALIFORNIA CARPENTERSTHOMAS A MORTON MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $165,000 over 6y, 7.5% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $91,752 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetA CHANCE IN LIFEINC: $33,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA COUNCIL BSA: $24,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGOLDEN GATE AREA COUNCIL #023: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATED SCHOOLS OF CONSTRUCTION: $18,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSAN MATEO COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $17,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL UNION OF PAINTERS AND ALLIED TRADES: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 55 SILICON VALLEY MONTEREY BAY COUNCIL: $6,050 over 1y, 0.1% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Northern California C…
Northern California Carpenters Regional CouncilCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Northern California Carpenters Regional Council

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 Wall and Ceiling Alliance funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wall and Ceiling Alliance. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Wall and Ceiling Alliance?

    Find your warmest path to Wall and Ceiling Alliance through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 12 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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