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IRON WORKERS LOCAL UNION NO 37

IRON WORKERS LOCAL UNION NO 37 (Rhode Island) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $86,340 to it, the largest being BUILDING FUTURES ($86,340). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.7M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$86k
Net assets
$4.8M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Iron Workers Local Union No 37 does

Mission

Support unionized labor for members

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Creating jobs for unionized members and protecting the rights of workers

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.4M) Expenses 100 ($1.4M) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2018 Revenue 99 ($1.3M) Expenses 84 ($1.2M) Net assets 113 ($1.5M)2019 Revenue 107 ($1.5M) Expenses 80 ($1.1M) Net assets 140 ($1.9M)2020 Revenue 132 ($1.8M) Expenses 90 ($1.2M) Net assets 182 ($2.4M)2021 Revenue 134 ($1.8M) Expenses 115 ($1.6M) Net assets 200 ($2.6M)2022 Revenue 134 ($1.8M) Expenses 123 ($1.7M) Net assets 209 ($2.8M)2023 Revenue 159 ($2.2M) Expenses 125 ($1.7M) Net assets 242 ($3.2M)2024 Revenue 190 ($2.6M) Expenses 116 ($1.6M) Net assets 315 ($4.2M)2025 Revenue 199 ($2.7M) Expenses 150 ($2.1M) Net assets 363 ($4.8M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (199)Expenses (150)Net assets (363)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 $3.4M to $4.3M (+27%).

$1.8M
$1.9M
$2.2M
$2.7M
$2.9M
$3.0M
$3.4M
$4.3M
$4.8M
'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

0% of IRON WORKERS LOCAL UNION NO 37’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (16% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,617 orgs

Surplus & reserves

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

−$24k
’17
$174k
’18
$357k
’19
$549k
’20
$236k
’21
$124k
’22
$434k
’23
$972k
’24
$632k
’25
24
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.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Listed6516131313121515
Joined·+0+11+4+0+0+6+3+0
No longer listed·10700700
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $27k → $30k.

Funder
'21
'22
'25*
total
Building Futuresunclassified
$86k
funders
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of IRON WORKERS LOCAL UNION NO 37’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

100% of IRON WORKERS LOCAL UNION NO 37's grant income comes from Rhode Island funders.

RI

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

’21
’22
Rhode Island 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

Against its field

IRON WORKERS LOCAL UNION NO 37 runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,012 employment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin23% · top quartile
Months of reserve23.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,012 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like IRON WORKERS LOCAL UNION NO 37

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 Rhode Island

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Governance

13
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 3 related entities

  • Local 37 Byrne-Lynch Scholarship Fund · exempt
  • Local 37 Vacation Fund · exempt
  • Local 37 Iron Workers Jac Fund - Joint Apprenticeship Committee · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds IRON WORKERS LOCAL UNION NO 37?
IRON WORKERS LOCAL UNION NO 37 (Rhode Island) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $86,340 to it, the largest being BUILDING FUTURES ($86,340). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does IRON WORKERS LOCAL UNION NO 37 have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $86,340 in grants to IRON WORKERS LOCAL UNION NO 37, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of IRON WORKERS LOCAL UNION NO 37?
BUILDING FUTURES is the largest funder on record, with $86,340 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like IRON WORKERS LOCAL UNION NO 37 find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. 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 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