Ironworkers Joint Apprentice Fund

Analysis

Ironworkers Joint Apprentice Fund is a registered charity in United States, based in Wheeling, WV. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2025. Its declared purposes cover employment, which this site groups under community and economic development. The IRS classifies it as a school under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending March 2024, Ironworkers Joint Apprentice Fund reported income of $405k and spending of $335k, spending 83% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2020 to March 2024, income fell from $489k to $405k (-17%), an average of -4.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income dropped by 23%. Over the whole period it spent 79% of the income it received.

Among 19,475 United States charities whose main cause is community and economic development and that reported income, Ironworkers Joint Apprentice Fund sits at the 64th percentile: it is larger than about 64% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 67th percentile, and in the 65th percentile within WV. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Jeffersonville Urban Enterprise Association Inc ($405k), Craft3 Future Energy Fund ($405k) and O Makuu Ke Kahus ($405k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending March 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 96% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $80k (24% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $47k. At year end it held assets of $847k against liabilities of $50k, net assets of $797k. It reported 18 employees.