International Union of Elevator
Columbia, MD · EIN 23-0725260. Reported 59 grants totalling $1,907,825 to 35 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, 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. 35 distinct organizations, with 26% 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. 53% 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 $20,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $35,000; the smallest was $5,800 and the largest $325,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Toy Box Connection Nfp | Orland Park, IL | $497,700 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Christopher P Gardner Foundation Incorporated | Chicago, IL | $300,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Elevator Constructors Local 5 Charitable Fund | Philadelphia, PA | $174,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Union Sportsmens Alliance | Spring Hill, TN | $113,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Development Now for Chicago | Chicago, IL | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| North America Building Trades Union | Washington, DC | $87,652 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Fedcap Rehabilitation Services Inc | New York, NY | $57,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Center for Military Recruitment Assessment and Veterans Employment | Washington, DC | $53,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Vote Yes for Workers Rights | Chicago, IL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Maryland Troopers Association Inc | Pikesville, MD | $49,200 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Irish One Inc | East Islip, NY | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Union Veterans Council | Washington, DC | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Diabetes Research Institute Foundation Inc | Miami, FL | $31,250 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Community School Building Fund | Roanoke, VA | $28,923 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Curt Morlock | Silt, CO | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| NAACP Boston Branch | Boston, MA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Elevator Museum Inc | Haverhill, MA | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Baltimore | Baltimore, MD | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Gary Sinise Foundation | Franklin, TN | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Iuec Local No 31 Disaster Relief Fund | Houston, TX | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Union Histories | Macedoniia, OH | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Irish Peace Foundation Inc | Washington, DC | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Peggy Browning Fund | Philadelphia, PA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Amenia Wassaic Community Organization | Amenia, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Behind the Scenes | Commerce, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Continue to Serve | Alexandria, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| International Union of Elevator Constructors | Chicago Ridge, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| International Union of Elevator Constructors Local No 12 | Kansas City, MO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Roosevelt Institute | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Ultimate Corporate Advertising | Plantation, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Smwia Scholarship Foundation | Washington, DC | $8,300 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Belfast-Beltway Boxing Project | Washington, DC | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Loyola University Maryland Inc | Baltimore, MD | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| International Union of Elevator Constructors | Chicago Ridge, IL | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Daniel E Stepano Retirement Dinner | Columbia, MD | $5,800 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
13 of 35 (37%) 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.
- Toy Box Connection
TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO TOUCH THE LIFE OF A CHILD THROUGH THE GIFT OF A TOY. - Christopher P Gardner Foundation
TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO BOTH INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS IN FINANCING UNIQUE AND INNOVATIVE EDUCATIONAL BENEFITS. - Development Now for Chicago
TO PROVIDE ASSITANCE TO PROMOTE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND IMPROVE BUSINESS CONDITIONS IN THE CHICAGO METROPOLITAN AREA. - Center for Military Recruitment Assessment and Veterans Employment
TO PROMOTE CAREERS IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY TO INDIVIDUALS LEAVING MILITARY SERVICE OR SERVING IN THE MILITARY RESERVES OR NATIONAL GUARD IN ORDER TO REDUCE THE HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT RATE AMONG VETERANS AND TO HELP ADDRESS A SKILLS SHORTAGE IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY. - Iuec Local No 5 Charitable Fund
TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO PURCAHSE TO INSTALL STAIR CHAIRS FOR DISABLED VETERANS. - Vote Yes for Workers Rights
TO PROMOTE THE WORKERS' RIGHTS AMENDMENT TO BARGAIN FOR SAFE WORKING CONDITIONS, FAIR PAY, AND BENEFITS.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 16 of 35 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.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 10 | $260,352 | $21,326 |
| 2021 | 13 | $650,450 | $24,200 |
| 2022 | 15 | $352,600 | $16,500 |
| 2023 | 21 | $644,423 | $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
51% 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
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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 $20,000 -- 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 Elevator'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 14 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 7 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: 7154 Columbia Gateway Drive, Columbia, MD, 21046.
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