Washington · Nonprofit
HEAVY METAL SUMMER EXPERIENCE
HEAVY METAL SUMMER EXPERIENCE (Washington) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $286,070 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($129,770). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $612k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $286k
- Net assets
- $162k
What Heavy Metal Summer Experience does
Mission
Heavy Metal Summer Experience seeks to introduce young people to living-wage careers in the building trades. By normalizing skills-based apprenticeships as a post-secondary education option, hmse hopes to create workforce diversity and entice the next
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Camp Expenses - Heavy Metal Summer Experience is a non-profit workforce development organization that provides free summer camps across the US and in Canada to expose youth (ages 14-20) to careers in the building trades. In 2025, HMSE introduced 786 students to rewarding, high-paying careers in the construction trades.
$569,461 spent73% of program spendingDigital Program Resource and Application Platform supported HMSE's online platform, which provides camp hosts with access to the resource center, instructional materials, and program tools needed to deliver local camps. The platform also enables students to identifhy and apply for camps in their area while learning about skilled trades career pathways. These digital resources support program delivery, student access, camp administration, and broader engagement with HMSE's workforce development mission.
$117,327 spent15% of program spendingExpenses supported program management staffing responsible for coordinating HMSE camp operations, including support for students, camp hosts, instructional materials, supplies, and program logistics.
$64,800 spent8% of program spendingIndustry Awareness and Camp Host Recruitment Initiatives - HMSE builds partnerships with Industry employers, labor organizations, and community stakeholders to recruit campt hosts, expand youth access to skilled trades careers, and strengthen future workforce pipelines. In 2025, 51 camp hosts partnered with HMSE, 40% increase from 2024.
$18,935 spent2% of program spendingGraduation Event Expenses - Expenses related to graduation events that recognize student accomplishments, celebrate camp host contributions, and connect participants, families, employers, and industry partners to skilled trades career opportunities.
$6,417 spent1% of program spendingCommunity Outreach and Engagement
$2,948 spent0% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $779,888.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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 $56k to $162k (+188%).
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.
100% of HEAVY METAL SUMMER EXPERIENCE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of HEAVY METAL SUMMER EXPERIENCE’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.
How concentrated its funding is
HEAVY METAL SUMMER EXPERIENCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
73% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund HEAVY METAL SUMMER EXPERIENCE.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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
56% of HEAVY METAL SUMMER EXPERIENCE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $125k that is directly attributable, 66% of it comes from funders outside Washington, across 7 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $161k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.
Against its field
HEAVY METAL SUMMER EXPERIENCE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 22,838 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,838 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like HEAVY METAL SUMMER EXPERIENCE
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
54% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Smacna Western Washington Association · exempt
- Western Washington Sheet Metal Ind Fund · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HEAVY METAL SUMMER EXPERIENCE: 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 HEAVY METAL SUMMER EXPERIENCE?
- HEAVY METAL SUMMER EXPERIENCE (Washington) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $286,070 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($129,770). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HEAVY METAL SUMMER EXPERIENCE have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $286,070 in grants to HEAVY METAL SUMMER EXPERIENCE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HEAVY METAL SUMMER EXPERIENCE?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $129,770 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HEAVY METAL SUMMER EXPERIENCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 11 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing