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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
3/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

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

  1. 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 spent
    73% of program spending
  2. Digital 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 spent
    15% of program spending
  3. Expenses supported program management staffing responsible for coordinating HMSE camp operations, including support for students, camp hosts, instructional materials, supplies, and program logistics.

    $64,800 spent
    8% of program spending
  4. Industry 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 spent
    2% of program spending
  5. Graduation 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 spent
    1% of program spending
  6. Community Outreach and Engagement

    $2,948 spent
    0% of program spending

The 6 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $779,888.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($265k) Expenses 100 ($125k) Net assets 100 ($139k)2023 Revenue 221 ($584k) Expenses 533 ($667k) Net assets 40 ($56k)2024 Revenue 231 ($612k) Expenses 413 ($517k) Net assets 116 ($162k)
202220232024
Revenue (231)Expenses (413)Net assets (116)Peer revenue range

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%).

$139k
$56k
$162k
202220232024
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.

2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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).

This organization
Typical peer · 25,057 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$139k
’22
−$83k
’23
$95k
’24
3.7
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.

202220232024
Listed448
Joined·+0+4
No longer listed·00
03Who funds it

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.

45%
largest funder
68%
top three
~4
effective funders

“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.

WA
IL
MI
PA
CA
CO
DE

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

HEAVY METAL SUMMER EXPERIENCE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 22,838 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin15% · above the median
Months of reserve3.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)52% · top quartile

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

54% of spending goes to programs.

Program 54%Management 23%Fundraising 23%

Governance

8
board members
50%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

WA

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Smacna Western Washington Association · exempt
  • Western Washington Sheet Metal Ind Fund · exempt

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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