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SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 88 JOINT APPRENTICESHIP & TRAINING FUND

SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 88 JOINT APPRENTICESHIP & TRAINING FUND (Nevada) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $318,950 to it, the largest being WESTERN STATES COUNCIL OF SHEET METAL AIR RAIL & TRANSPORTATION WORKERS ($255,847). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$2.6M
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$319k
Net assets
$11M
0/2 repeat funders
01What it does

What Sheet Metal Workers Local 88 Joint Apprenticeship & Training Fund does

Mission

Education and training of sheet metal apprentices.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. To provide classroom training and shop experience for apprentices and journeyman to ensure the quality of work of the sheet metal union local 88.

    $1,837,321 spent$2,288,050 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,837,321.

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 ($1.4M) Expenses 100 ($1.1M) Net assets 100 ($5.1M)2018 Revenue 118 ($1.7M) Expenses 129 ($1.4M) Net assets 98 ($5.0M)2019 Revenue 163 ($2.3M) Expenses 155 ($1.7M) Net assets 117 ($6.0M)2020 Revenue 188 ($2.7M) Expenses 137 ($1.5M) Net assets 143 ($7.3M)2021 Revenue 182 ($2.6M) Expenses 158 ($1.7M) Net assets 162 ($8.3M)2022 Revenue 220 ($3.1M) Expenses 171 ($1.8M) Net assets 178 ($9.1M)2023 Revenue 245 ($3.5M) Expenses 203 ($2.2M) Net assets 209 ($11M)2024 Revenue 179 ($2.6M) Expenses 242 ($2.6M) Net assets 212 ($11M)
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Revenue (179)Expenses (242)Net assets (212)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 2022 to 2023, from $9.1M to $18M (+94%).

$5.2M
$5.0M
$6.0M
$7.3M
$8.3M
$9.1M
$18M
$15M
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 13% · 2022 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

0% of SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 88 JOINT APPRENTICESHIP & TRAINING FUND’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (16% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,617 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$357k
’17
$302k
’18
$663k
’19
$1.2M
’20
$905k
’21
$1.3M
’22
$1.3M
’23
−$28k
’24
6.7
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.

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Listed1488899911
Joined·+2+1+0+1+1+0+2
No longer listed·8100100
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 88 JOINT APPRENTICESHIP & 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 WORKERS LOCAL 88 JOINT APPRENTICESHIP & TRAINING FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 WORKERS LOCAL 88 JOINT APPRENTICESHIP & TRAINING FUND.

80%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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

SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 88 JOINT APPRENTICESHIP & TRAINING FUND draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Nevada, across 2 states in all.

CA
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 88 JOINT APPRENTICESHIP & TRAINING FUND is better cushioned than half of the 1,551 employment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve6.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,551 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 88 JOINT APPRENTICESHIP & 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 Nevada

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

71% of spending goes to programs.

Program 71%Management 29%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Sheet Metal Workers Local 88-401k · exempt
  • Sheet Metal Workers Local Union 88 Retiree Health Reimbursement Plan · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 88 JOINT APPRENTICESHIP & 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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 88 JOINT APPRENTICESHIP & TRAINING FUND?
SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 88 JOINT APPRENTICESHIP & TRAINING FUND (Nevada) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $318,950 to it, the largest being WESTERN STATES COUNCIL OF SHEET METAL AIR RAIL & TRANSPORTATION WORKERS ($255,847). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 88 JOINT APPRENTICESHIP & TRAINING FUND have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $318,950 in grants to SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 88 JOINT APPRENTICESHIP & TRAINING FUND.
Who is the largest funder of SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 88 JOINT APPRENTICESHIP & TRAINING FUND?
WESTERN STATES COUNCIL OF SHEET METAL AIR RAIL & TRANSPORTATION WORKERS is the largest funder on record, with $255,847 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 88 JOINT APPRENTICESHIP & TRAINING FUND find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nevada. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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