Connecticut · Nonprofit
SHEET METAL INDUSTRY APPRENTICE & TRAINING FUND
SHEET METAL INDUSTRY APPRENTICE & TRAINING FUND (Connecticut) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $154,460 to it, the largest being CONNECTICUT STATE BUILDING TRADES TRAINING INSTITUTE INC ($57,960). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- Western States Council of Sheet Metal Air Rail & Transportation Workersshared funders
- International Union of Operating Engineers National Training Fundportfolio match
- Painters and Allied Trades Labor- Management Cooperation Initiativeportfolio match
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.
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: 2021 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $50k → $80k.
From the IRS filings of SHEET METAL INDUSTRY APPRENTICE & TRAINING 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.
How concentrated its funding is
SHEET METAL INDUSTRY APPRENTICE & TRAINING FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund SHEET METAL INDUSTRY APPRENTICE & TRAINING FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2023 72% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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
70% of SHEET METAL INDUSTRY APPRENTICE & TRAINING FUND's grant income comes from Connecticut 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.
- Western States Council of Sheet Metal Air Rail & Transportation Workersshared fundersCA · backs 3 organizations that share your funders
- International Union of Operating Engineers National Training Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Painters and Allied Trades Labor- Management Cooperation Initiativeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiativeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Iupat - Finishing Trades Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cpwr the Center for Construction Research and Trainingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Association of Journeymen & Apprentices of the Plumbing & Pipeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Building Futuresportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Great Lakes Region Organizing Committeeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- International Assn of Bridge Structural Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Laborers Employers Cooperation and Education Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- International Brotherhood of Teamsters Warehouse Wholesale Liquor Salespersonportfolio 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 SHEET METAL INDUSTRY APPRENTICE & TRAINING FUND
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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Sheet Metal Workers Local 40 Health Fund · exempt
- Sheet Metal Workers Local 40 Pension Fund · exempt
- Sheet Metal Workers Local 40 Supplemental Retirement Fund · exempt
- Smart Local 40 Union · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SHEET METAL INDUSTRY APPRENTICE & TRAINING FUND: 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 SHEET METAL INDUSTRY APPRENTICE & TRAINING FUND?
- SHEET METAL INDUSTRY APPRENTICE & TRAINING FUND (Connecticut) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $154,460 to it, the largest being CONNECTICUT STATE BUILDING TRADES TRAINING INSTITUTE INC ($57,960). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SHEET METAL INDUSTRY APPRENTICE & TRAINING FUND have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $154,460 in grants to SHEET METAL INDUSTRY APPRENTICE & TRAINING FUND, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHEET METAL INDUSTRY APPRENTICE & TRAINING FUND?
- CONNECTICUT STATE BUILDING TRADES TRAINING INSTITUTE INC is the largest funder on record, with $57,960 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHEET METAL INDUSTRY APPRENTICE & TRAINING FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 3funders 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