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INT'L ASSOC OF BRIDGE STRUCTURAL & ORNAMENTAL IRON WORKERS LOCAL 55

INT'L ASSOC OF BRIDGE STRUCTURAL & ORNAMENTAL IRON WORKERS LOCAL 55 (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,000 to it, the largest being INTERNATIONAL ASSN OF BRIDGE STRUCTURAL ORNAMENTAL AND REINFORCING IRON WORKERS ($13,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$3.0M
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$26k
Net assets
$5.9M
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Int'L Assoc of Bridge Structural & Ornamental Iron Workers Local 55 does

Mission

To represent members of the union employed in various construction trades. The union organizes workers for the economic, moral, and social advancement of their condition and status.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The local represents members employed in the construction trades. It organizes workers for the economic, moral, and social advancement of their condition and status. Number of members served = 879.

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.

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 ($2.7M) Expenses 100 ($2.4M) Net assets 100 ($3.0M)2018 Revenue 105 ($2.9M) Expenses 87 ($2.1M) Net assets 126 ($3.8M)2019 Revenue 157 ($4.3M) Expenses 91 ($2.2M) Net assets 196 ($5.9M)2020 Revenue 213 ($5.8M) Expenses 115 ($2.8M) Net assets 299 ($8.9M)2021 Revenue 110 ($3.0M) Expenses 113 ($2.7M) Net assets 311 ($9.3M)2022 Revenue 122 ($3.3M) Expenses 106 ($2.6M) Net assets 318 ($9.5M)2023 Revenue 116 ($3.2M) Expenses 119 ($2.9M) Net assets 317 ($9.4M)2024 Revenue 102 ($2.8M) Expenses 123 ($3.0M) Net assets 320 ($9.5M)2025 Revenue 111 ($3.0M) Expenses 138 ($3.3M) Net assets 197 ($5.9M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (111)Expenses (138)Net assets (197)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $9.5M to $5.9M (−38%).

$3.0M
$3.8M
$5.9M
$8.9M
$9.3M
$9.5M
$9.5M
$9.5M
$5.9M
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
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

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$317k
’17
$782k
’18
$2.1M
’19
$3.0M
’20
$277k
’21
$771k
’22
$307k
’23
−$194k
’24
−$318k
’25
5.1
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.

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Listed121216181616161612
Joined·+6+6+2+6+2+0+8+2
No longer listed·62082086
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 INT'L ASSOC OF BRIDGE STRUCTURAL & ORNAMENTAL IRON WORKERS LOCAL 55’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

INT'L ASSOC OF BRIDGE STRUCTURAL & ORNAMENTAL IRON WORKERS LOCAL 55 leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 INT'L ASSOC OF BRIDGE STRUCTURAL & ORNAMENTAL IRON WORKERS LOCAL 55.

50%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
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

INT'L ASSOC OF BRIDGE STRUCTURAL & ORNAMENTAL IRON WORKERS LOCAL 55 draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 1 state in all.

DC

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 INT'L ASSOC OF BRIDGE STRUCTURAL & ORNAMENTAL IRON WORKERS LOCAL 55

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In Ohio

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Governance

10
board members
30%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Ironworkers 55 Building Corp · exempt
  • Int'L Assn of Bridge Structural Iron Workers Local 55 Action Fund · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds INT'L ASSOC OF BRIDGE STRUCTURAL & ORNAMENTAL IRON WORKERS LOCAL 55?
INT'L ASSOC OF BRIDGE STRUCTURAL & ORNAMENTAL IRON WORKERS LOCAL 55 (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,000 to it, the largest being INTERNATIONAL ASSN OF BRIDGE STRUCTURAL ORNAMENTAL AND REINFORCING IRON WORKERS ($13,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does INT'L ASSOC OF BRIDGE STRUCTURAL & ORNAMENTAL IRON WORKERS LOCAL 55 have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $26,000 in grants to INT'L ASSOC OF BRIDGE STRUCTURAL & ORNAMENTAL IRON WORKERS LOCAL 55.
Who is the largest funder of INT'L ASSOC OF BRIDGE STRUCTURAL & ORNAMENTAL IRON WORKERS LOCAL 55?
INTERNATIONAL ASSN OF BRIDGE STRUCTURAL ORNAMENTAL AND REINFORCING IRON WORKERS is the largest funder on record, with $13,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like INT'L ASSOC OF BRIDGE STRUCTURAL & ORNAMENTAL IRON WORKERS LOCAL 55 find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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