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SHEET METAL WORKERS' LOCAL 218(S) APPRENTICE TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT FUND

SHEET METAL WORKERS' LOCAL 218(S) APPRENTICE TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT FUND (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $24,184 to it, the largest being INTERNATIONAL TRAINING INSTITUTE FOR THE SHEET METAL & AIR CONDITIONING INDUSTRY ($24,184). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$259k
Revenue FY2025
1
Funders on record
$24k
Grants received
$732k
Net assets
0/1 repeat funders

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($176k) Expenses 100 ($166k) Net assets 100 ($594k)2022 Revenue 96 ($169k) Expenses 105 ($174k) Net assets 99 ($589k)2023 Revenue 114 ($201k) Expenses 112 ($185k) Net assets 102 ($605k)2024 Revenue 142 ($251k) Expenses 107 ($177k) Net assets 114 ($679k)2025 Revenue 147 ($259k) Expenses 124 ($205k) Net assets 123 ($732k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (147)Expenses (124)Net assets (123)

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$10k
’21
−$5k
’22
$16k
’23
$74k
’24
$54k
’25
25
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of SHEET METAL WORKERS' LOCAL 218(S) APPRENTICE TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT 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 218(S) APPRENTICE TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT FUND draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, 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.

03Its place in the field

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.

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 WORKERS' LOCAL 218(S) APPRENTICE TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT 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 Illinois

Joint Apprentice Committee Trust of Sheet Metal Workers Local 26885%Architectual Metal Trainee School for 63 and the Iron League of Chicago85%Consolidated Sheet Metal Local 1 Joint Apprenticeship and Trianing Fund84%Local #444 Iron Workers Joint Apprenticeship & Training Trust Fund84%The Apprentice Training Fund for Local 1 of the Iabsoiw84%Operating Engineers Local 318 Joint Apprenticeship & Advanced Training83%Smacna Northern Illinois and Sheet Metal Workers Local 219 Training Fund82%Mechanics Local 701 Training Fund82%

Nationally

Sheet Metal Workers' Local No 20 Apprenticeship and Training Trust91%Sheet Metal Workers Local 88 Joint Apprenticeship & Training Fund90%Sheet Metal Training Fund90%Sheet Metal Workers' Local 100 Apprent Trust Fund of the Wash DC Area88%Sheet Metal Workers Local 18 El & W Local Training Fund87%St Louis Sheet Metal Joint Apprenticeship Fund87%Sheet Metal Workers' Local Union #5 (Jatc)87%Sheet Metal Workers Joint Apprenticeship Fund of Philadelphia and Vicinity87%
04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

67% of spending goes to programs.

Program 67%Management 33%Fundraising 0%

Governance

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

Public support

89%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SHEET METAL WORKERS' LOCAL 218(S) APPRENTICE TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT 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.

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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 WORKERS' LOCAL 218(S) APPRENTICE TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT FUND?
SHEET METAL WORKERS' LOCAL 218(S) APPRENTICE TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT FUND (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $24,184 to it, the largest being INTERNATIONAL TRAINING INSTITUTE FOR THE SHEET METAL & AIR CONDITIONING INDUSTRY ($24,184). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SHEET METAL WORKERS' LOCAL 218(S) APPRENTICE TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT FUND have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $24,184 in grants to SHEET METAL WORKERS' LOCAL 218(S) APPRENTICE TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT FUND.
Who is the largest funder of SHEET METAL WORKERS' LOCAL 218(S) APPRENTICE TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT FUND?
INTERNATIONAL TRAINING INSTITUTE FOR THE SHEET METAL & AIR CONDITIONING INDUSTRY is the largest funder on record, with $24,184 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SHEET METAL WORKERS' LOCAL 218(S) APPRENTICE TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT FUND find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 1funders 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