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SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 18 EL & W LOCAL TRAINING FUND

SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 18 EL & W LOCAL TRAINING FUND (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $22,665 to it, the largest being INTERNATIONAL TRAINING INSTITUTE FOR THE SHEET METAL & AIR CONDITIONING INDUSTRY ($22,665). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$728k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$23k
Net assets
$1.1M
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Sheet Metal Workers Local 18 El & W Local Training Fund does

Mission

To pursue excellence in academic knowledge and skills for each apprentice upon completion to be a successful sheet metal journeyman.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Providing members with educational and training programs in the sheet metal trade or craft and related occupation.

    $419,134 spent$713,077 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $419,134.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($187k) Expenses 100 ($120k) Net assets 100 ($508k)2018 Revenue 112 ($209k) Expenses 130 ($156k) Net assets 110 ($561k)2019 Revenue 132 ($246k) Expenses 180 ($216k) Net assets 116 ($590k)2020 Revenue 236 ($441k) Expenses 267 ($320k) Net assets 140 ($712k)2021 Revenue 242 ($452k) Expenses 362 ($434k) Net assets 144 ($729k)2022 Revenue 284 ($531k) Expenses 388 ($465k) Net assets 157 ($795k)2023 Revenue 305 ($569k) Expenses 411 ($492k) Net assets 172 ($871k)2024 Revenue 342 ($639k) Expenses 494 ($592k) Net assets 181 ($917k)2025 Revenue 390 ($728k) Expenses 454 ($544k) Net assets 217 ($1.1M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (390)Expenses (454)Net assets (217)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 2024 to 2025, from $947k to $1.1M (+19%).

$592k
$648k
$604k
$749k
$762k
$821k
$894k
$947k
$1.1M
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 18 EL & W LOCAL TRAINING FUND’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$67k
’17
$53k
’18
$29k
’19
$122k
’20
$17k
’21
$65k
’22
$76k
’23
$46k
’24
$184k
’25
17
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.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Listed666876667
Joined·+2+0+2+1+0+0+2+4
No longer listed·20021023
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 SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 18 EL & W LOCAL 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.

Where its funders are

SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 18 EL & W LOCAL TRAINING FUND draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 1 state in all.

VA

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

SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 18 EL & W LOCAL TRAINING FUND runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin25% · top quartile
Months of reserve17.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)19% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 18 EL & W LOCAL TRAINING 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 Wisconsin

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 23%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
83%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • 650 Tower Drive LLC · disregarded

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Questions and answers

Who funds SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 18 EL & W LOCAL TRAINING FUND?
SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 18 EL & W LOCAL TRAINING FUND (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $22,665 to it, the largest being INTERNATIONAL TRAINING INSTITUTE FOR THE SHEET METAL & AIR CONDITIONING INDUSTRY ($22,665). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 18 EL & W LOCAL TRAINING FUND have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $22,665 in grants to SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 18 EL & W LOCAL TRAINING FUND.
Who is the largest funder of SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 18 EL & W LOCAL TRAINING FUND?
INTERNATIONAL TRAINING INSTITUTE FOR THE SHEET METAL & AIR CONDITIONING INDUSTRY is the largest funder on record, with $22,665 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 18 EL & W LOCAL TRAINING FUND find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 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