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PLUMBERS LOCAL 34 SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION

PLUMBERS LOCAL 34 SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $14,666 to it, the largest being UNITED ASSOCIATION OF PLUMBERS & GAS FITTERS LOCAL UNION NO 34 ($14,666). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$9k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$15k
Net assets
$80k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 85%
01What it does

What Plumbers Local 34 Scholarship Foundation does

Mission

To provide educational scholarships and fellowships to current and future members of the plumbers local 34 and their dependents in order to enable them to pursue further education at a college or university, or a trade or vocational school.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Provided educational scholarships and fellowships to 6 current and future members of the plumbers local 34 and their dependents in order to enable them to pursue further education at a college or university, or a trade or vocational school.

    $5,250 spentof which $5,250 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $5,250.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($74k) Net assets 100 ($74k)2023 Revenue 23 ($17k) Expenses 100 ($16k) Net assets 101 ($75k)2024 Revenue 10 ($7k) Expenses 25 ($4k) Net assets 105 ($78k)2025 Revenue 12 ($9k) Expenses 40 ($7k) Net assets 108 ($80k)
2022202320242025
Revenue (12)Expenses (40)Net assets (108)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $75k to $78k (+4%).

$74k
$75k
$78k
$80k
2022202320242025
Total assets

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.

2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

56% of PLUMBERS LOCAL 34 SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$74k
’22
$772
’23
$3k
’24
$2k
’25

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Dean Gale

CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

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 PLUMBERS LOCAL 34 SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION’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 PLUMBERS LOCAL 34 SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.

MN

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

PLUMBERS LOCAL 34 SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin26% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−51% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like PLUMBERS LOCAL 34 SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION

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 Minnesota

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PLUMBERS LOCAL 34 SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: 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 PLUMBERS LOCAL 34 SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION?
PLUMBERS LOCAL 34 SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $14,666 to it, the largest being UNITED ASSOCIATION OF PLUMBERS & GAS FITTERS LOCAL UNION NO 34 ($14,666). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PLUMBERS LOCAL 34 SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $14,666 in grants to PLUMBERS LOCAL 34 SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of PLUMBERS LOCAL 34 SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION?
UNITED ASSOCIATION OF PLUMBERS & GAS FITTERS LOCAL UNION NO 34 is the largest funder on record, with $14,666 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PLUMBERS LOCAL 34 SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2022–2025), 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