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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SHEET METAL JOINT APPRENTICESHIP AND TRAINING COMMITTEE

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SHEET METAL JOINT APPRENTICESHIP AND TRAINING COMMITTEE (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $299,650 to it, the largest being WESTERN STATES COUNCIL OF SHEET METAL AIR RAIL & TRANSPORTATION WORKERS ($235,650). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$7.1M
Revenue FY2025
2
Funders on record
$300k
Grants received
$30M
Net assets
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($4.5M) Expenses 100 ($3.9M) Net assets 100 ($21M)2018 Revenue 108 ($4.9M) Expenses 101 ($4.0M) Net assets 106 ($22M)2019 Revenue 131 ($5.9M) Expenses 118 ($4.7M) Net assets 113 ($23M)2020 Revenue 145 ($6.5M) Expenses 125 ($4.9M) Net assets 122 ($25M)2021 Revenue 139 ($6.3M) Expenses 131 ($5.2M) Net assets 138 ($29M)2022 Revenue 153 ($6.9M) Expenses 136 ($5.4M) Net assets 124 ($26M)2023 Revenue 128 ($5.7M) Expenses 137 ($5.4M) Net assets 129 ($27M)2024 Revenue 140 ($6.3M) Expenses 144 ($5.7M) Net assets 138 ($28M)2025 Revenue 158 ($7.1M) Expenses 157 ($6.2M) Net assets 147 ($30M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (158)Expenses (157)Net assets (147)

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

Surplus & reserves

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

$546k
’17
$874k
’18
$1.2M
’19
$1.6M
’20
$1.1M
’21
$1.5M
’22
$318k
’23
$613k
’24
$875k
’25
2.4
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
2

From the IRS filings of SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SHEET METAL JOINT APPRENTICESHIP AND TRAINING COMMITTEE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.

How concentrated its funding is

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SHEET METAL JOINT APPRENTICESHIP AND TRAINING COMMITTEE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% 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

79%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.

Where its funders are

79% of SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SHEET METAL JOINT APPRENTICESHIP AND TRAINING COMMITTEE's grant income comes from California funders.

CA
VA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.

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 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SHEET METAL JOINT APPRENTICESHIP AND TRAINING COMMITTEE

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 California

Sheet Metal Workers Local 104 Apprentice & Journeyman Training Program84%Sheet Metal Industry Apprenticeship Training Trust Fund84%Sheet Metal Workers and Tri County AC Sheet Metal Contractors Apprenticeship83%San Joaquin And Calaveras Counties Electrical Training And Educational Trust80%Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Aprntic Eshipjrnyman Training Fund San Diego80%Sheet Metal Air Rail and Transportation Workers Local Union 10579%Apprentice & Journeymen Trg Trust Fund78%Northern California and Northern Nv Sound and Communication Apprenticeship Trng Tr Fd78%

Nationally

Sheet Metal Joint Apprenticeship & Training Committee of Rochester Ny86%Sheet Metal Workers Local 104 Apprentice & Journeyman Training Program84%Sheet Metal Industry Apprenticeship Training Trust Fund84%Sheet Metal Joint Apprentice Committee Inc84%Sheet Metal Worker Joint Apprentice & Training Committee of Central Pa84%Sheet Metal Workers Joint Apprenticeship Fund of Philadelphia and Vicinity84%Sheet Metal Workers Local 88 Joint Apprenticeship & Training Fund84%Sheet Metal Workers and Tri County AC Sheet Metal Contractors Apprenticeship83%
04Profile & governance

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

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SHEET METAL JOINT APPRENTICESHIP AND TRAINING COMMITTEE: 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 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SHEET METAL JOINT APPRENTICESHIP AND TRAINING COMMITTEE?
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SHEET METAL JOINT APPRENTICESHIP AND TRAINING COMMITTEE (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $299,650 to it, the largest being WESTERN STATES COUNCIL OF SHEET METAL AIR RAIL & TRANSPORTATION WORKERS ($235,650). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SHEET METAL JOINT APPRENTICESHIP AND TRAINING COMMITTEE have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $299,650 in grants to SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SHEET METAL JOINT APPRENTICESHIP AND TRAINING COMMITTEE.
Who is the largest funder of SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SHEET METAL JOINT APPRENTICESHIP AND TRAINING COMMITTEE?
WESTERN STATES COUNCIL OF SHEET METAL AIR RAIL & TRANSPORTATION WORKERS is the largest funder on record, with $235,650 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SHEET METAL JOINT APPRENTICESHIP AND TRAINING COMMITTEE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing