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International Union of Bricklayers &
Washington, DC · EIN 53-0038250. Reported 139 grants totalling $5,990,576 to 81 organizations across tax years 2021-2025, on Form 990 Schedule I.
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:
- 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.
- How spread out its giving is. 81 distinct organizations, with 8% 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.
- How much its list changes. 57% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 56% median for grantmaking charities -- lower than the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $59,945; 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.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jt Thorpe Company | Beaumont, TX | $454,137 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Bac Local 05 Oklahomaarkansastexas | Oklahoma City, OK | $450,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Bac Adc of Il | Elmhurst, IL | $448,049 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Jt Thorpe & Son Inc | Richmond, CA | $397,531 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bac Local 7 Nynj | Long Island City, NY | $364,735 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Union Sportsmens Alliance | Spring Hill, TN | $361,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Bac Local 08 Southeast | Atlanta, GA | $346,782 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Bac Local 09 Pa | Pittsburgh, PA | $332,492 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Admin District Council of New Jersey | Bordentown, NJ | $231,157 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Union Sportsmen's Alliance | Spring Hill, TN | $168,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Bac Local 02 Ny | Albany, NY | $167,484 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Bac Local 01 Mnnd | Minneapolis, MN | $161,539 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Intl Scholarships & Tuition Svcs Inc | Nashville, TN | $160,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| National Merit Scholarship Corporation | Evanston, IL | $130,730 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The Christopher P Gardner Fdn | Chicago, IL | $125,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Bac Local 03 Ny | Rochester, NY | $115,807 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Lonestar Sierra LLC | Pocatello, ID | $112,680 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Bac District Council of Wisconsin | New Berlin, WI | $97,942 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Southwest Refractory of Texas | Alvin, TX | $87,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Reftech International Inc | Carnegie, PA | $81,349 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bac Local 08IL | Ofallon, IL | $73,817 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| North America's Building Trades Unions | Washington, DC | $70,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Bac Local 3 Iowa | Des Moines, IA | $66,276 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Labor Council for Latin American Advancement | Washington, DC | $58,300 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Lonestar Sierra LLC | Tehachapi, CA | $58,297 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cmrave | Washington, DC | $49,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Jobs With Justice Education Fund | Washington, DC | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Economic Policy Institute | Washington, DC | $40,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Bac Mountain West Admin District Council | Las Vegas, NV | $36,784 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Shakespeare Theatre | Washington, DC | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Shakespeare Theatre | Washington, DC | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| National Building Museum | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Umwa 2021 Strike Aid Fund | Dumfries, VA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Washington-Ireland Program | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| International Council of Employers Bricklayers & Allied Craftworkers | Pittsburgh, PA | $24,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Tcaa | Kansas City, MO | $22,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Lclaa | Washington, DC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Rebuild USA LLC | Washington, DC | $19,803 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| DC Friends of Ireland | Washington, DC | $19,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Bw Industrial LLC | Louisville, KY | $19,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lmb Industrial Services Inc | Birdsboro, PA | $18,050 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Nontraditional Employment for Women | New York, NY | $17,500 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| The Peggy Browning Fund | Philadelphia, PA | $17,500 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Economic Policy Institute | Washington, DC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| March of Dimes | Atlanta, GA | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| March of Dimes Inc | Arlington, VA | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Tcaa | Washington, DC | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| The Edward M Kennedy Institute | Boston, MA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Adc of Eastern Missouri | Fenton, MO | $14,030 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Think Hope | Perkasie, PA | $14,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Americas Agenda Healthcare Education Fund | Washington, DC | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| National Building Museum | Washington, DC | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| National Democratic Institute | Washington, DC | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| National Democratic Institute for International Affairs | Washington, DC | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Bac Local 01 New York | Long Island City, NY | $11,700 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Ace Mentor Program of America Inc | Philadelphia, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| American Ladder Institute | Cleveland, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Cbtu Scholarship Fund | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Greater New York Councils BSA | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Healing Emergency Aid Response Team- 9 11 Inc | Monmouth Bch, NJ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Irish Echo Newspaper Corp | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jobs With Justice | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jobs With Justice Education Fund | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Mason Contractors Association of America Inc | Algonquin, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| National Democratic Institute for International Affairs | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| New England Civil Rights Fund Inc | Boston, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tradesfutures | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| United Way of the National Capital Area | Vienna, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Diabetes Research Institute Foundation | Miami, FL | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Friends of Lonnie Stephenson | Newburg, MD | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| National Merit Scholarship Corporation | Evanston, IL | $7,905 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Iuec 100TH Anniversary | Columbia, MD | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| James R Hoffa Memorial Scholarship Fund Inc | Washington, DC | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Labor of Love | Washington, DC | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Belfast-Beltway Boxing Project | Washington, DC | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| The Labor Heritage Foundation | Washington, DC | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| National Democratic Club | Washington, DC | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| International Council of Employers of Bricklayers & Allied Craftworkers | Pittsburgh, PA | $6,200 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| International Council of Employers | Pittsburgh, PA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Smwi Scholarship Foundation | Washington, DC | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| West Harlem Environmental Action Inc | New York, NY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
38 of 81 (47%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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.
- Jt Thorpe & Son Inc
DONATIONS - LABOR RELATED
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 15 of 81 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 17 | $294,498 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 18 | $507,470 | $13,750 |
| 2023 | 39 | $2,169,039 | $20,000 |
| 2024 | 29 | $1,333,356 | $16,864 |
| 2025 | 36 | $1,686,213 | $15,000 |
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
13% 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.
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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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- 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.
- 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.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Illinois.
- 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 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 20 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 28 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.
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