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SMACNA NORTHERN ILLINOIS AND SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 219 TRAINING FUND

SMACNA NORTHERN ILLINOIS AND SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 219 TRAINING FUND (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $108,735 to it, the largest being INTERNATIONAL TRAINING INSTITUTE FOR THE SHEET METAL & AIR CONDITIONING INDUSTRY ($108,735). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.1M
Revenue FY2025
1
Funders on record
$109k
Grants received
$1.3M
Net assets
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%

Against its field

SMACNA NORTHERN ILLINOIS AND SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 219 TRAINING FUND has grown faster than three-quarters of the 911 employment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · above the median
Months of reserve3.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)26% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 911 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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 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 ($179k) Expenses 100 ($178k) Net assets 100 ($234k)2018 Revenue 126 ($226k) Expenses 135 ($241k) Net assets 93 ($218k)2019 Revenue 141 ($253k) Expenses 151 ($269k) Net assets 87 ($204k)2020 Revenue 165 ($295k) Expenses 137 ($244k) Net assets 110 ($258k)2021 Revenue 270 ($484k) Expenses 192 ($343k) Net assets 171 ($399k)2022 Revenue 352 ($631k) Expenses 227 ($406k) Net assets 265 ($619k)2023 Revenue 503 ($903k) Expenses 300 ($536k) Net assets 421 ($984k)2024 Revenue 521 ($935k) Expenses 427 ($763k) Net assets 501 ($1.2M)2025 Revenue 640 ($1.1M) Expenses 595 ($1.1M) Net assets 544 ($1.3M)
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Revenue (640)Expenses (595)Net assets (544)Peer revenue range

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

14% of SMACNA NORTHERN ILLINOIS AND SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 219 TRAINING FUND’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (15% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,613 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$824
17
$15k
18
$15k
19
$51k
20
$141k
21
$225k
22
$367k
23
$172k
24
$86k
25
3.8
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.

From the IRS filings of SMACNA NORTHERN ILLINOIS AND SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 219 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

SMACNA NORTHERN ILLINOIS AND SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 219 TRAINING 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 SMACNA NORTHERN ILLINOIS AND SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 219 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 Illinois

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Sheet Metal Workers Local 219 Employee Benefit Fund · exempt
  • Sheet Metal Workers Local 219 Retirement Savings Fund · exempt
  • Smart Lu 219 Smacna of Nil Lb Mgmt Comm Trust Fund · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SMACNA NORTHERN ILLINOIS AND SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 219 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 SMACNA NORTHERN ILLINOIS AND SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 219 TRAINING FUND?
SMACNA NORTHERN ILLINOIS AND SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 219 TRAINING FUND (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $108,735 to it, the largest being INTERNATIONAL TRAINING INSTITUTE FOR THE SHEET METAL & AIR CONDITIONING INDUSTRY ($108,735). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SMACNA NORTHERN ILLINOIS AND SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 219 TRAINING FUND have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $108,735 in grants to SMACNA NORTHERN ILLINOIS AND SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 219 TRAINING FUND, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SMACNA NORTHERN ILLINOIS AND SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 219 TRAINING FUND?
INTERNATIONAL TRAINING INSTITUTE FOR THE SHEET METAL & AIR CONDITIONING INDUSTRY is the largest funder on record, with $108,735 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SMACNA NORTHERN ILLINOIS AND SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 219 TRAINING 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 2017–2025), 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