GrantmakersNew York

Carpenter Contractor Alliance of

New York, NY · EIN 56-2410898. Reported 69 grants totalling $1,011,758 to 28 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

28organizations funded
$12,000median reported grant
$1,011,758granted, 2020-2023
60%of grantees funded again the next year
10%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. 28 distinct organizations, with 10% 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. 60% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $12,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $16,083; the smallest was $5,100 and the largest $52,812. 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
12 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
48 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
7 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
2 grants

17 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $228,883 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.

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
Boy Scouts of AmericaNew York, NY$100,000332022
Friends of St Dominics IncBlauvelt, NY$91,750442023
New York District Council Crpntrs Apprntcshp Jrnymn Retraing EducaNew York, NY$78,895332023
Special Olympics New York IncAlbany, NY$65,000332023
Edward J Malloy Initiative for Constructive Skills IncNew York, NY$55,000442023
Building Trades Employers Assn of the City of New YorkNew York, NY$50,000332023
Navy Seal FoundationDuxbury, MA$50,000222022
Nyc Building and Construction Industry Safety FundNew York, NY$46,000332023
Autism Speaks IncWashington, DC$45,000332023
Sub-Contractors Trade AssociationNew York, NY$45,000332023
Non Traditional Employment for WomenNew York, NY$40,363442023
Healing Emergency Aid Response Team- 9 11 IncMonmouth Bch, NJ$39,500332023
Building Contractors Association IncNew York, NY$38,500442023
Ny Helmets to Hardhats IncNew York, NY$38,500442023
New York City District Council of Carpenters Charity FundNew York, NY$30,000332022
Association of Wall and Ceiling Industries of Colorado IncDenver, CO$29,900332023
Catholic Charities Neighborhood Services IncBrooklyn, NY$25,000222023
Local Union 45 U B C & J a Scholarship FundFloral Park, NY$20,150222023
Local Union No 1556 Scholarship FundNew York, NY$15,500222022
Local 2790 Scholarship Fund IncWoodhaven, NY$15,300222022
Local 926S Maria Concillo Memorial Scholarship Fund IncBrooklyn, NY$15,200222022
Catholic Charities Diocese of BrooklynBrooklyn, NY$15,000112020
Creative Arts Workshops for Kids IncNew York, NY$15,000112023
Carpenters Local Union 157 Scholarship FundNew York, NY$10,000112021
Engineering Contractors' AssociationAnaheim, CA$10,000112020
Local 20 Scholarship Fund IncStaten Island, NY$10,000112022
Ronald Mcdonald House of New York IncNew York, NY$10,000112022
Corenet Global IncNew York, NY$7,200112020

21 of 28 (75%) 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 20 of 28 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
7 orgs
Health Care
2 orgs
Employment
2 orgs
Community Improvement
2 orgs
Human Services
2 orgs
Youth Development
1 org
Diseases & Disorders
1 org
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202016$274,012$10,000
202117$228,883$10,000
202220$255,413$10,281
202316$253,450$14,150

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

83% of its giving went to organizations in New York. 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.

New York
$837K
Massachusetts
$50K
District of Columbia
$45K
New Jersey
$40K
Colorado
$30K
California
$10K

Down to the city

New York, NY
$580K
Blauvelt, NY
$92K
Albany, NY
$65K
Brooklyn, NY
$55K
Duxbury, MA
$50K
Washington, DC
$45K

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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.

New York City Carpenters Relief11 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc7 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund7 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc5 shared recipientsAmerican Express Foundation5 shared recipientsInternational Brotherhood of Tmstrs5 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 $12,000 -- 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 New York.
  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 Carpenter Contractor Alliance of's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 12 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 4 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: 245 5TH Avenue Suite 901, New York, NY, 10016.

EIN 56-2410898 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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