West Virginia Sheet Metal Workers Joint Apprenticeship Training

Analysis

West Virginia Sheet Metal Workers Joint Apprenticeship Training is a registered charity in United States, based in Parkersburg, WV. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1972, 54 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, West Virginia Sheet Metal Workers Joint Apprenticeship Training reported income of $296k and spending of $345k, spending 117% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $339k to $296k (-13%), an average of -3.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 28%. Over the whole period it spent 115% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, West Virginia Sheet Metal Workers Joint Apprenticeship Training sits at the 61st percentile: it is larger than about 61% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 61st percentile, and in the 60th percentile within WV. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Stephen Breen Memorial Foundation Inc ($295k), African Diaspora College Access Program ($296k) and Lancaster-Lebanon Education Foundation ($295k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 93% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $122k. At year end it held assets of $1.2m against liabilities of $47k, net assets of $1.1m. It reported 9 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.