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UNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN & 704 DETROIT SPRINKLERS FITTERS

UNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN & 704 DETROIT SPRINKLERS FITTERS (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,568,294 to it, the largest being NATIONAL AUTOMATIC SPRINKLER INDUSTRY APPRENTICE & TRAINING FUND ($2,561,294). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$4.4M
Revenue FY2024
2
Funders on record
$2.6M
Grants received
$11M
Net assets
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%

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 ($3.3M) Expenses 100 ($2.4M) Net assets 100 ($4.1M)2018 Revenue 93 ($3.1M) Expenses 143 ($3.5M) Net assets 89 ($3.6M)2019 Revenue 112 ($3.7M) Expenses 134 ($3.2M) Net assets 102 ($4.2M)2020 Revenue 120 ($4.0M) Expenses 113 ($2.7M) Net assets 133 ($5.5M)2021 Revenue 127 ($4.2M) Expenses 136 ($3.3M) Net assets 155 ($6.3M)2022 Revenue 116 ($3.9M) Expenses 126 ($3.0M) Net assets 171 ($7.0M)2023 Revenue 134 ($4.4M) Expenses 113 ($2.7M) Net assets 214 ($8.8M)2024 Revenue 133 ($4.4M) Expenses 112 ($2.7M) Net assets 256 ($11M)
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Revenue (133)Expenses (112)Net assets (256)

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

Surplus & reserves

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

$902k
17
$392k
18
$486k
19
$1.3M
20
$914k
21
$804k
22
$1.7M
23
$1.7M
24
7.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $249k → $394k.

From the IRS filings of UNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN & 704 DETROIT SPRINKLERS FITTERS’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

UNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN & 704 DETROIT SPRINKLERS FITTERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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 UNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN & 704 DETROIT SPRINKLERS FITTERS.

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

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 98% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100%broadly stable.

“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

UNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN & 704 DETROIT SPRINKLERS FITTERS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 2 states in all.

MI
MD

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

17
18
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20
21
22
23
Michigan out of state home

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 UNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN & 704 DETROIT SPRINKLERS FITTERS

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 Michigan

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

43% of spending goes to programs.

Program 43%Management 56%Fundraising 1%

Governance

7
board members
43%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN & 704 DETROIT SPRINKLERS FITTERS: 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 UNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN & 704 DETROIT SPRINKLERS FITTERS?
UNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN & 704 DETROIT SPRINKLERS FITTERS (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,568,294 to it, the largest being NATIONAL AUTOMATIC SPRINKLER INDUSTRY APPRENTICE & TRAINING FUND ($2,561,294). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does UNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN & 704 DETROIT SPRINKLERS FITTERS have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $2,568,294 in grants to UNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN & 704 DETROIT SPRINKLERS FITTERS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of UNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN & 704 DETROIT SPRINKLERS FITTERS?
NATIONAL AUTOMATIC SPRINKLER INDUSTRY APPRENTICE & TRAINING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,561,294 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like UNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN & 704 DETROIT SPRINKLERS FITTERS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 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. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing