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KENTUCKY PIPE TRADES ASSOCIATION

KENTUCKY PIPE TRADES ASSOCIATION (Kentucky) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,386,533 to it, the largest being UNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN & APPRENTICES OF THE PLUMBING & PIPE ($6,386,533). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.2M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$6.4M
Net assets
$1.7M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 73%
01What it does

What Kentucky Pipe Trades Association does

Mission

The association was formed to promote the interest of the plumbing and pipefitting industry.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The association was formed to promote the interest of the plumbing and pipe fitting industry by recommending appropriate legislation to protect the trades, promote sanitation for the protection of the public health, to discourage legislation detrimental to the public health and promote that which will protect life, property, and the plumbing and pipefitting trades.

    $1,981,322 spent
    81% of program spending

  2. Grants received are used for the purpose of promoting the plumbing and pipe trade industry.

    $451,365 spent
    19% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,432,687.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($867k) Expenses 100 ($732k) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2019 Revenue 107 ($928k) Expenses 140 ($1.0M) Net assets 93 ($1.2M)2020 Revenue 120 ($1.0M) Expenses 148 ($1.1M) Net assets 90 ($1.2M)2021 Revenue 160 ($1.4M) Expenses 120 ($876k) Net assets 129 ($1.7M)2022 Revenue 208 ($1.8M) Expenses 196 ($1.4M) Net assets 157 ($2.0M)2023 Revenue 243 ($2.1M) Expenses 278 ($2.0M) Net assets 163 ($2.1M)2024 Revenue 251 ($2.2M) Expenses 325 ($2.4M) Net assets 147 ($1.9M)2025 Revenue 251 ($2.2M) Expenses 323 ($2.4M) Net assets 132 ($1.7M)
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Revenue (251)Expenses (323)Net assets (132)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 2020 to 2021, from $1.2M to $1.7M (+44%).

$1.3M
$1.2M
$1.2M
$1.7M
$2.0M
$2.1M
$1.9M
$1.7M
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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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 6% · 2023 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

95% of KENTUCKY PIPE TRADES ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$135k
’18
−$94k
’19
−$41k
’20
$511k
’21
$366k
’22
$68k
’23
−$207k
’24
−$187k
’25
7.3
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.

'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Listed43335333
Joined·+0+1+0+2+0+0+1
No longer listed·1100201
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $167k → $1.1M.

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

From the IRS filings of KENTUCKY 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

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

MD

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

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Kentucky 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

KENTUCKY PIPE TRADES ASSOCIATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,012 employment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−9% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve7.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · top quartile

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

Organizations like KENTUCKY 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 Kentucky

Kentucky Pilots Association Education Foundation Inc78%Kentucky State Afl-Cio78%Kentucky Pharmacists Association Inc78%Kentucky Association for Economic Development Inc77%Kentucky Rural Water Association77%Kentucky Press Association77%Kentucky Society of Professional Engineers Inc76%Kentucky Primary Care Association Inc76%

Nationally

Illinois Pipe Trades Association81%California State Pipe Trades Council Scholarship Fund81%Idaho State Pipe Trades Association81%Association of Contracting Plumbers of the City of New York Inc79%South Central Pipe Trades Associati79%Pipe Fitters Association Local 597 Charities Inc78%Kentucky Pilots Association Education Foundation Inc78%Mid-Atlantic Pipe Trades Association78%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 4%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KENTUCKY 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 KENTUCKY PIPE TRADES ASSOCIATION?
KENTUCKY PIPE TRADES ASSOCIATION (Kentucky) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,386,533 to it, the largest being UNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN & APPRENTICES OF THE PLUMBING & PIPE ($6,386,533). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does KENTUCKY PIPE TRADES ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $6,386,533 in grants to KENTUCKY PIPE TRADES ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of KENTUCKY PIPE TRADES ASSOCIATION?
UNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN & APPRENTICES OF THE PLUMBING & PIPE is the largest funder on record, with $6,386,533 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like KENTUCKY PIPE TRADES ASSOCIATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 2018–2025), 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