Missouri · Nonprofit
PLUMBERS UNION 178 - GENERAL FUND
PLUMBERS UNION 178 - GENERAL FUND (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $417,500 to it, the largest being UNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN & APPRENTICES OF THE PLUMBING & PIPE ($417,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $418k
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Plumbers Union 178 - General Fund does
Mission
Local union hall representing plumbers and pipefitters, referring to employment, furthering education, research and loyal cooperation the interests of its members and making agreements with employers engaged in the plumbing and pipefitting industry so that all concerned therewith may work in complete accord and to their mutual advantage.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The largest program service provided is the membership benefits to local union memerships for the dues paid during the year.
$1,144,096 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,144,096.
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.
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 $3.1M to $3.6M (+18%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 3% · 2019 4% · 2020 5% · 2021 5% · 2022 7% · 2023 4% · 2024 3% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $33k → $63k.
From the IRS filings of PLUMBERS UNION 178 - GENERAL FUND’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
PLUMBERS UNION 178 - GENERAL FUND draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 1 state in all.
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.
Organizations like PLUMBERS UNION 178 - GENERAL FUND
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Plumbers Union 178 - Jatc Fund · exempt
- Plumbers Union 178 - Health & Welfare & Apprenticeship Trust · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PLUMBERS UNION 178 - GENERAL FUND?
- PLUMBERS UNION 178 - GENERAL FUND (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $417,500 to it, the largest being UNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN & APPRENTICES OF THE PLUMBING & PIPE ($417,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PLUMBERS UNION 178 - GENERAL FUND have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $417,500 in grants to PLUMBERS UNION 178 - GENERAL FUND, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PLUMBERS UNION 178 - GENERAL FUND?
- UNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN & APPRENTICES OF THE PLUMBING & PIPE is the largest funder on record, with $417,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PLUMBERS UNION 178 - GENERAL FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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