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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.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$493k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $49k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $639k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
$96,151
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
02

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 (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 53% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%sheet metal workers LU 104: $493k → 9%TRI-COUNTIES SHEET METAL WORKERS' JATC: $37k → 10%SHEET METAL JATC SAN DIEGO: $256k → 11%NORTHERN CA VALLEY SMW JATC: $96k → 12%SOCA SHEET METAL WORKERS' JATC: $236k → 14%MODESTO AREA SHEET METAL: $75k → 17%FRESNO & VIC SHEET METAL: $170k → 19%United Labor Agency of Nevada: $13k → 13%SHEET METAL WORKERS LU 206: $63k → 11%CALIFORNIA ENERGY ALLIANCE: $6k → 12%SHEET METAL WORKERS LU 105: $347k → 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.
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 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
Sheet Metal Workers Local 4 Apprentice Fund

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…

Employment
2
Sheet Metal Worker Joint Apprentice & Training Committee of Central Pa

The organization's purpose is to organize and conduct training and education programs for all apprentice and journeyman sheet metal workers.

Education
3
Sheet Metal Workers' Local No 20 Apprenticeship and Training Trust

Training for sheet metal industry.

Education
4
Sheet Metal Joint Apprenticeship & Training Committee of Rochester Ny

To provide training in the sheet metal industry for apprentices and journeymen.

Employment
5
Sheet Metal Workers Joint Apprenticeship Fund of Philadelphia and Vicinity

The purpose of the fund is to conduct an organized training and education program for all apprentice and journeyman sheet metal workers.

Education
6
Sheet Metal Contractors Assoc of Central and Southern Nj

Advancement of sheet metal industry

Community Improvement
7
Sheet Metal Joint Apprentice Committee Inc

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.

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8
Sheet Metal Contractors and Local No 71 Jac Education and Training Fund

To provide training and retraining programs and educational programs for eligible sheet metal worker apprentices and journeymen.

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9
Sheet Metal Industry Apprentice & Training Fund

To provide training to local 40 sheet metal worker union members.

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10
Sheet Metal Workers Union Joint Apprenticeship & Training Committee

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.

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11
Consolidated Sheet Metal Local 1 Joint Apprenticeship and Trianing Fund

To train apprentices to journeyman status and to upgrade skills of existing journeymen.

Education
12
Sheet Metal Workers Local 18 El & W Local Training Fund

To pursue excellence in academic knowledge and skills for each apprentice upon completion to be a successful sheet metal journeyman.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sheet Metal Workers Local 104 Apprentice & Journeyman Training Program; 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.
03the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 11 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 104 APPRENTICE & JOURNEYMAN TRAINING PROGRAM: $493,379 · EmploymentSHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 104 APPRENTICE & JOURNEYMAN TRAINING PROGRAMSHEET METAL AIR RAIL AND TRANSPORTATION WORKERS LOCAL UNION 105: $347,363 · EmploymentSHEET METAL AIR RAIL AND TRANSPORTATION WORKERS LOCAL UNION 105SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 88 JOINT APPRENTICESHIP & TRAINING FUND: $255,847 · EmploymentSHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 88 JOINT APPRENTICESHIP & TRAINING FUNDMODESTO AREA SHEET METAL APPRENTICESHIP TRAINING TRUST: $74,809 · EmploymentMODESTO AREA SHEET METAL APPRENTICESHIP TRAINING TRUSTSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SHEET METAL JOINT APPRENTICESHIP AND TRAINING COMMITTEE: $235,650 · OtherSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SHEET MET…SHEET METAL INDUSTRY APPRENTICESHIP TRAINING TRUST FUND: $169,986 · OtherSHEET METAL INDUSTRY APPRENTI…SHEET METAL WORKERS LU 206: $62,782 · OtherSHEET METAL WORKERS LU 206NO CALIF VALLEY SHEET METAL INDUSTRY JATC: $96,151 · EducationTRI-COUNTIES SHEET METAL WORKERS LMCC: $36,673 · Community ImprovementUNITED LABOR AGENCY OF NEVADA INC: $12,500 · PhilanthropyCalifornia Energy Alliance: $6,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Employment$1,171,398Other$468,418Education$96,151Community Improvement$36,673Philanthropy$12,500Public Safety & Disaster$6,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 104 APPRENTICE & JOURNEYMAN TRAINING PROGRAM: $493,379 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetSHEET METAL AIR RAIL AND TRANSPORTATION WORKERS LOCAL UNION 105: $347,363 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 88 JOINT APPRENTICESHIP & TRAINING FUND: $255,847 over 1y, 10% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SHEET METAL JOINT APPRENTICESHIP AND TRAINING COMMITTEE: $235,650 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetSHEET METAL INDUSTRY APPRENTICESHIP TRAINING TRUST FUND: $169,986 over 1y, 20% of budgetNO CALIF VALLEY SHEET METAL INDUSTRY JATC: $96,151 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetMODESTO AREA SHEET METAL APPRENTICESHIP TRAINING TRUST: $74,809 over 1y, 29% of budgetTRI-COUNTIES SHEET METAL WORKERS LMCC: $36,673 over 1y, 30% of budgetUNITED LABOR AGENCY OF NEVADA INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCalifornia Energy Alliance: $6,000 over 1y, 1.6% 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.

International Trainin…
International Training Institute for the Sheet Metal & Air Conditioning IndustryVA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Western States Council of Sheet Metal Air Rail & Transportation Workers funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Western States Council of Sheet Metal Air Rail & Transportation Workers. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%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
    0get no government money at all
    4report 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 11 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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