· Public charity
Western States Council of Sheet Metal Air Rail & Transportation Workers
To advocate for and preserve the standard of living and working conditions for members of affiliated local unions.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $49k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $639k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| sheet metal workers LU 104 | $493,379 |
| SHEET METAL WORKERS LU 105 | $347,363 |
| SHEET METAL JATC SAN DIEGO | $255,847 |
| SOCA SHEET METAL WORKERS' JATC | $235,650 |
| FRESNO & VIC SHEET METAL | $169,986 |
| NORTHERN CA VALLEY SMW JATC | $96,151 |
| MODESTO AREA SHEET METAL | $74,809 |
| SHEET METAL WORKERS LU 206 | $62,782 |
| TRI-COUNTIES SHEET METAL WORKERS' JATC | $36,673 |
| United Labor Agency of Nevada | $12,500 |
| CALIFORNIA ENERGY ALLIANCE | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 53% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
The memphis tennessee sheet metal workers apprenticeship and training program is dedicated to excellence in vocational sheet metal training for the unionized sheet metal industry.in order to provide a qualified workforce for our…
The organization's purpose is to organize and conduct training and education programs for all apprentice and journeyman sheet metal workers.
Training for sheet metal industry.
To provide training in the sheet metal industry for apprentices and journeymen.
The purpose of the fund is to conduct an organized training and education program for all apprentice and journeyman sheet metal workers.
Advancement of sheet metal industry
The purpose of the organization is to support a program for the training and education of sheet metal apprentice journey persons, and other persons as may be designated by the trustees, and other programs in furtherance.
To provide training and retraining programs and educational programs for eligible sheet metal worker apprentices and journeymen.
To provide training to local 40 sheet metal worker union members.
The alaska sc-se sheet metal workers jatc recruits, trains, and helps employ individuals for industry specific training in heating, ventilation and air conditioning, fabrication, installation, maintenance and service.
To train apprentices to journeyman status and to upgrade skills of existing journeymen.
To pursue excellence in academic knowledge and skills for each apprentice upon completion to be a successful sheet metal journeyman.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sheet Metal Workers Local 104 Apprentice & Journeyman Training Program and the most unlike its peers is California Energy Alliance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 11 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.
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 SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 104 APPRENTICE & JOURNEYMAN TRAINING PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds SHEET METAL AIR RAIL AND TRANSPORTATION WORKERS LOCAL UNION 105 ↗
- Who funds SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 88 JOINT APPRENTICESHIP & TRAINING FUND ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SHEET METAL JOINT APPRENTICESHIP AND TRAINING COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds SHEET METAL INDUSTRY APPRENTICESHIP TRAINING TRUST FUND ↗
- Who funds NO CALIF VALLEY SHEET METAL INDUSTRY JATC ↗
- Who funds MODESTO AREA SHEET METAL APPRENTICESHIP TRAINING TRUST ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTIES SHEET METAL WORKERS LMCC ↗
- Who funds UNITED LABOR AGENCY OF NEVADA INC ↗
- Who funds California Energy Alliance ↗
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: International Training Institute for the Sheet Metal & Air Conditioning Industry
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 Western States Council of Sheet Metal Air Rail & Transportation Workers 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.