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ARCHITECTUAL METAL TRAINEE SCHOOL FOR 63 AND THE IRON LEAGUE OF CHICAGO

ARCHITECTUAL METAL TRAINEE SCHOOL FOR 63 AND THE IRON LEAGUE OF CHICAGO (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $102,147 to it, the largest being Chicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative ($102,147). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$2.5M
Revenue FY2025
1
Funders on record
$102k
Grants received
$7.6M
Net assets
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($1.8M) Expenses 100 ($1.2M) Net assets 100 ($5.7M)2021 Revenue 101 ($1.8M) Expenses 129 ($1.6M) Net assets 105 ($6.0M)2022 Revenue 107 ($1.9M) Expenses 123 ($1.5M) Net assets 109 ($6.2M)2023 Revenue 135 ($2.5M) Expenses 127 ($1.6M) Net assets 124 ($7.1M)2024 Revenue 129 ($2.3M) Expenses 135 ($1.7M) Net assets 139 ($7.9M)2025 Revenue 136 ($2.5M) Expenses 230 ($2.8M) Net assets 133 ($7.6M)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (136)Expenses (230)Net assets (133)

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$575k
’20
$232k
’21
$426k
’22
$887k
’23
$660k
’24
−$376k
’25
1.1
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of ARCHITECTUAL METAL TRAINEE SCHOOL FOR 63 AND THE IRON LEAGUE OF CHICAGO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

100% of ARCHITECTUAL METAL TRAINEE SCHOOL FOR 63 AND THE IRON LEAGUE OF CHICAGO's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like ARCHITECTUAL METAL TRAINEE SCHOOL FOR 63 AND THE IRON LEAGUE OF CHICAGO

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Illinois

Sheet Metal Workers' Local 218(S) Apprentice Training and Development Fund85%The Apprentice Training Fund for Local 1 of the Iabsoiw82%Local #444 Iron Workers Joint Apprenticeship & Training Trust Fund81%Joint Apprentice Committee Trust of Sheet Metal Workers Local 26881%Machinery Movers Riggers and Erectors Union Local #136 Training Trust81%Smacna Northern Illinois and Sheet Metal Workers Local 219 Training Fund79%Consolidated Sheet Metal Local 1 Joint Apprenticeship and Trianing Fund78%Mechanics Local 701 Training Fund78%

Nationally

Sheet Metal Air Rail and Transportation Workers Local #63 Educational Fund86%Sheet Metal Workers' Local 218(S) Apprentice Training and Development Fund85%Sheet Metal Workers' Local No 20 Apprenticeship and Training Trust84%Sheet Metal Workers Local 88 Joint Apprenticeship & Training Fund83%Joint Apprenticeship and Training Trust Fund Local 103 Ibew83%International Masonry Training and Education Foundation83%Sheet Metal Contractors and Local No 71 Jac Education and Training Fund82%Iron Workers Locals 40 & 361 Apprenticeship & Training Fund82%
04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARCHITECTUAL METAL TRAINEE SCHOOL FOR 63 AND THE IRON LEAGUE OF CHICAGO: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds ARCHITECTUAL METAL TRAINEE SCHOOL FOR 63 AND THE IRON LEAGUE OF CHICAGO?
ARCHITECTUAL METAL TRAINEE SCHOOL FOR 63 AND THE IRON LEAGUE OF CHICAGO (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $102,147 to it, the largest being Chicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative ($102,147). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ARCHITECTUAL METAL TRAINEE SCHOOL FOR 63 AND THE IRON LEAGUE OF CHICAGO have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $102,147 in grants to ARCHITECTUAL METAL TRAINEE SCHOOL FOR 63 AND THE IRON LEAGUE OF CHICAGO, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ARCHITECTUAL METAL TRAINEE SCHOOL FOR 63 AND THE IRON LEAGUE OF CHICAGO?
Chicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative is the largest funder on record, with $102,147 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ARCHITECTUAL METAL TRAINEE SCHOOL FOR 63 AND THE IRON LEAGUE OF CHICAGO find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 1funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing