GrantmakersDistrict of Columbia

International Union of Bricklayers &

Washington, DC · EIN 53-0038250. Reported 103 grants totalling $4,304,363 to 69 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

69organizations funded
$15,000median reported grant
$4,304,363granted, 2021-2024
41%of grantees funded again the next year
9%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 69 distinct organizations, with 9% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 41% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $58,297; the smallest was $5,700 and the largest $397,531. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
25 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
41 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
9 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
16 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
11 grants
$250,000 Or More
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Jt Thorpe & Son IncRichmond, CA$397,531112023
Union Sportsmens AllianceSpring Hill, TN$361,000332023
Bac Adc of IlElmhurst, IL$300,755222024
Bac Local 05 OklahomaarkansastexasOklahoma City, OK$300,000222024
Bac Local 7 NynjLong Island City, NY$290,698222024
Bac Local 08 SoutheastAtlanta, GA$236,545222024
Bac Local 09 PaPittsburgh, PA$213,803222024
Admin District Council of New JerseyBordentown, NJ$176,093222024
Jt Thorpe CompanyBeaumont, TX$172,323112023
National Merit Scholarship CorporationEvanston, IL$130,730332023
The Christopher P Gardner FdnChicago, IL$125,000222023
Bac Local 01 MnndMinneapolis, MN$124,144222024
Bac Local 03 NyRochester, NY$115,807222024
Intl Scholarships & Tuition Svcs IncNashville, TN$105,000222024
Bac Local 02 NyAlbany, NY$103,046222024
Southwest Refractory of TexasAlvin, TX$87,000112023
Union Sportsmen's AllianceSpring Hill, TN$83,000112024
Reftech International IncCarnegie, PA$81,349112023
North America's Building Trades UnionsWashington, DC$60,000332024
Labor Council for Latin American AdvancementWashington, DC$58,300332023
Lonestar Sierra LLCTehachapi, CA$58,297112023
Jobs With Justice Education FundWashington, DC$45,000332023
Economic Policy InstituteWashington, DC$40,000332023
CmraveWashington, DC$37,000442024
Bac District Council of WisconsinNew Berlin, WI$30,489112024
Shakespeare TheatreWashington, DC$30,000222023
Bac Local 3 IowaDes Moines, IA$25,562112024
National Building MuseumWashington, DC$25,000222023
Umwa 2021 Strike Aid FundDumfries, VA$25,000112021
International Council of Employers Bricklayers & Allied CraftworkersPittsburgh, PA$24,000222023
TcaaKansas City, MO$22,500222023
Rebuild USA LLCWashington, DC$19,803112021
DC Friends of IrelandWashington, DC$19,500332024
Bw Industrial LLCLouisville, KY$19,000112023
Lmb Industrial Services IncBirdsboro, PA$18,050112023
Bac Local 08ILOfallon, IL$16,864112024
Bac Mountain West Admin District CouncilLas Vegas, NV$15,069112024
Economic Policy InstituteWashington, DC$15,000112024
March of Dimes IncArlington, VA$15,000222023
Shakespeare TheatreWashington, DC$15,000112024
Washington-Ireland ProgramWashington, DC$15,000112024
Think HopePerkasie, PA$14,000222022
Americas Agenda Healthcare Education FundWashington, DC$12,500112021
National Democratic InstituteWashington, DC$12,500112024
Ace Mentor Program of America IncPhiladelphia, PA$10,000112021
American Ladder InstituteCleveland, OH$10,000112022
Cbtu Scholarship FundWashington, DC$10,000112023
Greater New York Councils BSANew York, NY$10,000112023
Healing Emergency Aid Response Team- 9 11 IncMonmouth Bch, NJ$10,000112021
Irish Echo Newspaper CorpNew York, NY$10,000112023
Jobs With JusticeWashington, DC$10,000112024
Mason Contractors Association of America IncAlgonquin, IL$10,000112021
National Democratic Institute for International AffairsWashington, DC$10,000112022
New England Civil Rights Fund IncBoston, MA$10,000112023
Nontraditional Employment for WomenNew York, NY$10,000112023
United Way of the National Capital AreaVienna, VA$10,000112023
Friends of Lonnie StephensonNewburg, MD$8,000112023
National Merit Scholarship CorporationEvanston, IL$7,905112024
Iuec 100TH AnniversaryColumbia, MD$7,500112021
James R Hoffa Memorial Scholarship Fund IncWashington, DC$7,500112022
Labor of LoveWashington, DC$7,500112022
March of DimesAtlanta, GA$7,500112024
TcaaWashington, DC$7,500112024
The Peggy Browning FundPhiladelphia, PA$7,500112024
The Labor Heritage FoundationWashington, DC$7,000112023
National Democratic ClubWashington, DC$6,500112021
International Council of EmployersPittsburgh, PA$6,000112024
West Harlem Environmental Action IncNew York, NY$6,000112021
Bac Local 01 New YorkLong Island City, NY$5,700112024

25 of 69 (36%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 15 of 69 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Education
3 orgs
Environment
2 orgs
Arts & Culture
2 orgs
Civil Rights
1 org
Employment
1 org
Social Science
1 org
Diseases & Disorders
1 org
Human Services
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202117$294,498$10,000
202218$507,470$13,750
202339$2,169,039$20,000
202429$1,333,356$16,864

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

14% of its giving went to organizations in Illinois. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Illinois
$591K
New York
$551K
Tennessee
$549K
District of Columbia
$471K
California
$456K
Pennsylvania
$375K
Oklahoma
$300K
Texas
$259K

Down to the city

Washington, DC
$471K
Spring Hill, TN
$444K
Richmond, CA
$398K
Elmhurst, IL
$301K
Oklahoma City, OK
$300K
Long Island City, NY
$296K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund9 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program6 shared recipientsAmerican Federation of Labor and5 shared recipientsUnited Food and Commercial Workers5 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc5 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust5 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $15,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Illinois.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from International Union of Bricklayers &'s own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 7 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 35 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 620 F Street Nw, Washington, DC, 20004.

EIN 53-0038250 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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