Rhode Island · Nonprofit
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.
Against its field
IRON WORKERS LOCAL UNION NO 37 runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 911 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 911 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Earthwatch Institute Incshared funders
- Neca-Ibew National Labor-Management Cooperation Committee Trust Fundportfolio match
- Midwest Region Organizing Committeeportfolio match
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.
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.
0% of IRON WORKERS LOCAL UNION NO 37’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (15% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $27k → $30k.
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.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Earthwatch Institute Incshared fundersMA · backs 2 organizations that share your funders
- Neca-Ibew National Labor-Management Cooperation Committee Trust Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Midwest Region Organizing Committeeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Association of Journeymen & Apprentices of the Plumbing & Pipeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Restore America's Estuariesshared fundersDC · backs 2 organizations that share your funders
- Great Lakes Region Organizing Committeeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Operating Engineers National Charity Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Joint Council of Teamsters No 28portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Unite Hereportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- International Assn of Bridge Structural Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizationsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Office and Professional Employees International Unionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like IRON WORKERS LOCAL UNION NO 37
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Rhode Island
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for IRON WORKERS LOCAL UNION NO 37: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
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.
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 1funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing