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COLORADO SHEET METAL WORKERS TRAINING FUND

COLORADO SHEET METAL WORKERS TRAINING FUND (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $31,687 to it, the largest being INTERNATIONAL TRAINING INSTITUTE FOR THE SHEET METAL & AIR CONDITIONING INDUSTRY ($31,687). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$3.7M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$32k
Net assets
$4.4M
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Colorado Sheet Metal Workers Training Fund does

Mission

Sheet metal worker apprenticeship fund

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To provide and maintain training and retraining programs for workers in the sheet metal industry and to develop and distribute training material. More specifically, to develop a comprehensive training program for participants and through training, the fund will upgrade the general quality of workmanship in the sheet metal industry in the state of colorado.

    $1,920,941 spent$3,267,638 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,920,941.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.3M) Expenses 100 ($1.8M) Net assets 100 ($2.4M)2018 Revenue 101 ($2.3M) Expenses 120 ($2.2M) Net assets 103 ($2.5M)2019 Revenue 91 ($2.1M) Expenses 115 ($2.1M) Net assets 102 ($2.5M)2020 Revenue 114 ($2.6M) Expenses 128 ($2.4M) Net assets 112 ($2.7M)2021 Revenue 125 ($2.8M) Expenses 132 ($2.4M) Net assets 130 ($3.2M)2022 Revenue 123 ($2.8M) Expenses 137 ($2.5M) Net assets 137 ($3.4M)2023 Revenue 156 ($3.5M) Expenses 157 ($2.9M) Net assets 163 ($4.0M)2024 Revenue 148 ($3.3M) Expenses 146 ($2.7M) Net assets 167 ($4.1M)2025 Revenue 165 ($3.7M) Expenses 184 ($3.4M) Net assets 182 ($4.4M)
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Revenue (165)Expenses (184)Net assets (182)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $4.2M to $4.8M (+14%).

$2.8M
$3.0M
$2.8M
$3.3M
$3.3M
$3.6M
$4.2M
$4.8M
$5.1M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$415k
’17
$73k
’18
−$53k
’19
$216k
’20
$401k
’21
$245k
’22
$616k
’23
$641k
’24
$336k
’25
0.9
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Board chair

Nathan Cooper

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed131413131314121419
Joined·+2+1+3+1+4+0+2+5
No longer listed·12313200
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

From the IRS filings of COLORADO SHEET METAL WORKERS TRAINING FUND’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

COLORADO SHEET METAL WORKERS TRAINING FUND draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 1 state in all.

VA

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like COLORADO SHEET METAL WORKERS TRAINING FUND

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

In Colorado

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

72% of spending goes to programs.

Program 72%Management 28%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Sheet Metal Workers Training Fund Inc · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COLORADO SHEET METAL WORKERS TRAINING FUND: 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 COLORADO SHEET METAL WORKERS TRAINING FUND?
COLORADO SHEET METAL WORKERS TRAINING FUND (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $31,687 to it, the largest being INTERNATIONAL TRAINING INSTITUTE FOR THE SHEET METAL & AIR CONDITIONING INDUSTRY ($31,687). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COLORADO SHEET METAL WORKERS TRAINING FUND have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $31,687 in grants to COLORADO SHEET METAL WORKERS TRAINING FUND.
Who is the largest funder of COLORADO SHEET METAL WORKERS TRAINING FUND?
INTERNATIONAL TRAINING INSTITUTE FOR THE SHEET METAL & AIR CONDITIONING INDUSTRY is the largest funder on record, with $31,687 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COLORADO SHEET METAL WORKERS TRAINING FUND find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing