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ILLINOIS PIPE TRADES ASSOCIATION

ILLINOIS PIPE TRADES ASSOCIATION (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,910,333 to it, the largest being UNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN & APPRENTICES OF THE PLUMBING & PIPE ($7,910,333). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$5.8M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$7.9M
Net assets
$3.8M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 39%
01What it does

What Illinois Pipe Trades Association does

Mission

To promote, protect, and serve the member unions by establishing and maintaining minimum wage standards, protecting members from unjust competition, and overseeing labor agreements within the state of illinois.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To establish and maintain a minimum standard of daily wages; to maintain the hours of labor as defined in agreements in the various localities of the state; and to elevate by legal and proper means the moral, intellectual and social conditions of all members and to promote and foster just and equitable action in all dealings with others and employers.

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($3.1M) Expenses 100 ($2.5M) Net assets 100 ($3.8M)2022 Revenue 109 ($3.3M) Expenses 80 ($2.0M) Net assets 134 ($5.1M)2023 Revenue 105 ($3.2M) Expenses 210 ($5.3M) Net assets 80 ($3.0M)2024 Revenue 56 ($1.7M) Expenses 124 ($3.1M) Net assets 60 ($2.3M)2025 Revenue 189 ($5.8M) Expenses 168 ($4.3M) Net assets 100 ($3.8M)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (189)Expenses (168)Net assets (100)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $5.6M to $3.3M (−41%).

$4.0M
$5.6M
$3.3M
$2.6M
$3.9M
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 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. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$528k
’21
$1.3M
’22
−$2.1M
’23
−$1.4M
’24
$1.5M
’25
6.4
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.

Chief executive

William Allison

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.

20212022202320242025
Listed1714151414
Joined·+0+2+5+1
No longer listed·3161
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $308k → $1.3M.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of ILLINOIS PIPE TRADES ASSOCIATION’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

ILLINOIS PIPE TRADES ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state in all.

MD

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

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 ILLINOIS PIPE TRADES ASSOCIATION

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 Illinois

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Governance

8
board members
75%
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

  • Illinois Pipe Trades Political Education Committee · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ILLINOIS PIPE TRADES ASSOCIATION: 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 ILLINOIS PIPE TRADES ASSOCIATION?
ILLINOIS PIPE TRADES ASSOCIATION (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,910,333 to it, the largest being UNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN & APPRENTICES OF THE PLUMBING & PIPE ($7,910,333). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ILLINOIS PIPE TRADES ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $7,910,333 in grants to ILLINOIS PIPE TRADES ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ILLINOIS PIPE TRADES ASSOCIATION?
UNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN & APPRENTICES OF THE PLUMBING & PIPE is the largest funder on record, with $7,910,333 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ILLINOIS PIPE TRADES ASSOCIATION 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 2021–2025), 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