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Western States Regional Council of Carpenters

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

$3.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
65
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$350k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 77% of WESTERN STATES REGIONAL COUNCIL OF CARPENTERS’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 65 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 65 grants below total $2,785,285 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,066,007 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $280,722 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k46 grants · $739k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+3 grants · $900k
$15,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$586M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Yes on Prop 2 Sponsored Nonprofit$350,000
Neighbors for Affordable Housing Now$300,000
Nevada Alliance$250,000
San Diego Alliance for Traffic Relief$225,000
Organizing Empowerment Project$200,000
Yes on HH - San Diegans for Comm Colleges$100,000
Yes on 5 Californians for Safe$100,000
Yes on Prop 4 Californians Safe Drinking$100,000
Support Riverside Comm College - Yes CC$75,000
Yes on Measure AC$75,000
Committee for Rancho Santiago$75,000
LA Co Democratic Party$60,000
CMTE to Support the Bond to Repair$50,000
CA Homes Committee$50,000
Yes on SW-Southwestern College Coalition$48,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Living United for Change in Arizona: $25k → 11%The Urban League of Portland: $15k → 12%Ryan House: $24k → 11%Ryan House: $8k → 11%Carpenters Assistance Resource Program: $10k → 13%SPANISH TOWN HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $8k → 11%Carpenters Assist Resource Program: $9k → 13%HOUSING CALIFORNIA: $6k → 12%Special Needs Networks Inc: $10k → 14%El Centro Del Pueblo: $25k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

18%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.4M · 37 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

37 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 43 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
113

Total granted

$2.4M
$9.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
0%

Still filing today

70%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.2M went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationCivil RightsRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • SD
    SAN DIEGO ALLIANCE FOR TRAFFIC RELIEF RELIABLE TRANSIT & JOBS
    2× · 2022–2025 · $475k · revenue +477% · 58% of their budget
  • WA
    WEST ANGELES COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $165k · revenue +36%
  • CH
    CARPENTERS HELPING HANDS INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $140k · revenue +221%

Funded once

  • NO
    NO ON PROP 6 STOP THE ATTACK ON BRIDGE & ROAD SAFETY
    one grant, 2019 · $1.4M
  • SV
    STRATEGIC VICTORY FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $1.0M · revenue -28%
  • SR
    SOUTHWEST REGIONAL COUNCIL OF CARPENTERS PAC - LA
    one grant, 2019 · $857k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Los Angelesorange Counties Building and Construction Trades Council

To organize, increase collective bargaining support and publicize labor issues related to the construction industry within los angeles and orange counties.

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2
Coalition for Responsible and Equitable Economic Development Los Angeles

To ensure that the workers in the construction industry in Los Angeles are highly trained and professional. The organization seeks the creation of good jobs, safety for workers, health care and a secure retirement for working families.

Community Improvement
3
California State Council of Service Employees

The council coordinated the efforts of affiliated local unions and assisted their organizations work, bettering the working conditions of their members.

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4
Alliance for a Better California Sponsored By Working Families and Labor

To support or oppose state and local ballot measures that affect the security of working californians.

Civil Rights
5
California Chamber of Commerce

Represent members and cal employers to members of cal legislature and other agencies of state government through in-house legislative analysts, lobbying staff, and contract lobbyists. cal chamber publishes books and software related to…

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6
Californians for Taxpayer Protection and Government Accountability

To support policies and ballot measures to curb increases in taxes throughout the state of California, including the qualification and passage of a proposed statewide initiative relating to the imposition of taxes and fees (California…

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7
Build Better La

To support ballot measures and policies in the los angeles metropolitan area that provide affordable housing and create good jobs.

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8
The California Channel

To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…

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9
League of Women Voters of Los Angeles

The League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization, encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and…

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10
Californians for Fair Pay and Employer Accountability

To support policies and ballot measures to support employment reform.

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11
California Dvbe Alliance Us Veteran Business Alliance Inc

To be the partner of choice for all US veterans, ensuring success in their business.

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12
California Alliance for Jobs

To actively participate in the enhancement and development of unionized construction work in the Northern California area, and to promote public awareness of the importance of construction as an economic factor in the continued growth and…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Mayor's Fund for Los Angeles and the most unlike its peers is Futureports. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteady#15#10#12#19#2#17#16
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%11%<5yr15%12%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr17%28%20–35yr11%19%35–55yr13%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%29%<5yr15%12%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr17%19%20–35yr11%15%35–55yr13%9%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 29% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%3/162
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,816

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

108 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. 108 of the 194 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
93/108
Grantees still filing
52/108
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NO ON PROP 6 STOP THE ATTACK ON BRIDGE & ROAD SAFETY — $1,350,000 · OtherNO ON PROP 6 STOP THE ATTACK ON BRIDGE & ROAD SAFETYSTRATEGIC VICTORY FUND — $1,000,000 · OtherSTRATEGIC VICTORY FUNDSOUTHWEST REGIONAL COUNCIL OF CARPENTERS PAC - LA — $856,823 · OtherSOUTHWEST REGIONAL COUNCIL OF CARPENTERS PAC - LAYes on Prop 1 — $667,000 · OtherYes on Prop 1+154 more — $6,987,233 · Other+154 moreSAN DIEGO ALLIANCE FOR TRAFFIC RELIEF RELIABLE TRANSIT & JOBS — $475,000 · EducationYES ON MEASURE LA COMMITTEE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION & STUDENT SUCCESS — $150,000 · EducationCONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $99,000 · EducationUC RIVERSIDE FOUNDATION — $30,000 · Education+1 more — $5,500 · EducationTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES — $500,000 · PhilanthropyWESTERN FUTURES FUND INC — $100,000 · PhilanthropyLOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC — $75,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $7,500 · PhilanthropyAFFORDABLE HOUSING SOLUTIONS NOW COMMITTEE — $300,000 · Civil RightsORGANIZING EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC — $200,000 · Civil RightsSCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST — $100,000 · Civil RightsCONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS POLITICAL EDU CATION AND LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE — $60,000 · Civil Rights+1 more — $20,000 · Civil RightsWEST ANGELES COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $165,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY COALITION FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT — $110,000 · Community ImprovementFUTUREPORTS — $26,000 · Community ImprovementALLIANCE FOR QUALITY CONSTRUCTION — $20,000 · Community ImprovementHISPANIC FEDERATION INC — $15,000 · Community ImprovementHomes for San Diegans — $15,000 · Community Improvement+2 more — $20,000 · Community ImprovementRYAN HOUSE — $32,000 · Human ServicesEL CENTRO DEL PUEBLO INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesLIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA — $25,000 · Human ServicesCARPENTERS ASSISTANCE RESOURCE PROGRAM OF NEVADA — $18,600 · Human ServicesURBAN LEAGUE OF PORTLAND INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesSpecial Needs Network Inc — $10,000 · Human ServicesSpanish Town Heritage Foundation — $8,000 · Human ServicesHOUSING CALIFORNIA INC — $6,000 · Human ServicesSEVEN POINT INC — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentFernando Vargas Fighting Foundation — $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentHOLLENBECK POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE — $20,300 · Youth DevelopmentCesar Chavez Service Clubs Inc — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentREACH CENTER — $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$10,861,056Education$759,500Philanthropy$732,500Civil Rights$680,000Community Improvement$371,000Human Services$139,600Youth Development$130,300

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSTRATEGIC VICTORY FUND — $1,000,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES — $500,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetSAN DIEGO ALLIANCE FOR TRAFFIC RELIEF RELIABLE TRANSIT & JOBS — $475,000 over 2y, 58% of budgetWEST ANGELES COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $165,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetCARPENTERS HELPING HANDS INC — $140,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budget2023 Governors Inaugural Fund — $125,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetYES ON QUALITY SCHOOLS — $125,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY COALITION FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT — $110,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWESTERN FUTURES FUND INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $99,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetINLAND EMPIRE ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP INC — $75,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCalifornia Coalition for Rural Housing Project — $70,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetFUNDAMENTAL CHANGE — $60,000 over 2y, 56% of budgetUNITED BROTHERHOOD OF CARPENTERS AND JOINERS OF AMERICA NO 971 — $60,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS POLITICAL EDU CATION AND LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE — $60,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetENGINEERING & UTILITY CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION DBA UNITED CONTRACTORS — $55,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED FARM WORKERS OF AMERICA — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MIGUEL CONTRERAS FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetSEVEN POINT INC — $50,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetCONGRESS OF RACIAL EQUALITY OF CALIFORNIA CORE-CA — $40,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetFernando Vargas Fighting Foundation — $40,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetAGC CONSTRUCTION EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetRYAN HOUSE — $32,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWOMEN IN NON TRADITIONAL EMPLOYMENT ROLES — $30,600 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetUC RIVERSIDE FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF CALIFORNIA INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED BROTHERHOOD OF CARPENTERS & JOINERS OF AMERICA NO 805 — $30,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetSAN BERNARDINO SHERIFF'S ATHLETIC FEDERATION FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetUNITED BROTHERHOOD OF CARPENTERS & JOINERS OF AMERICA LOCAL 619 — $30,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFUTUREPORTS — $26,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetLOS ANGELES URBAN LEAGUE — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHURSTON COUNTY CHAMBER FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetEL CENTRO DEL PUEBLO INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYes on Measure AV - A New Hospital For Antelope Valley — $25,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetGOVERNORS INAUGURAL FUND 2019 — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAbundant Housing LA Education Fund — $25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetLOS ANGELES COUNTY FEDERATION OF LABOR AFL-CIO — $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVALLEY CULTURAL CENTER dba VALLEY CULTURAL FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetLIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCENTRAL CITY ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES — $24,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION — $23,200 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLOS ANGELES BUSINESS COUNCIL FORMERLY KNOWN AS WEST LA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $22,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSan Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council AFL-CIO — $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCHOICE2020 — $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetEXPLORA SCIENCE CENTER & CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ALBUQUERQUE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSan Francisco Housing Action Coalition — $20,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budget
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.

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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

American Federation o…Weingart FoundationAmerica VotesSeiu Local 2015California Community …The California Endowm…United Way IncUnited Brotherhood of…The James Irvine Foun…The Ralph M Parsons F…Liberty Hill Foundati…Sixteen Thirty Fund
American Federation of State County and Municipal EmployeesDC24.6× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees · Weingart Foundation · America Votes · Seiu Local 2015 · California Community Foundation · The California Endowment · United Way Inc · United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America · The James Irvine Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · Sixteen Thirty Fund

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 Regional Council of Carpenters 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 46%
  • Oregon Tradeswomen Inc — 46% of income from government
  • Urban League of Portland Inc — 33% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 194 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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