· Public charity
International Union of Operating Engineers Local 542
To elevate the trade of operating engineers to its proper position in industry and in the ranks of organized workers; to encourage a higher standard of skill among its members; to cultivate a feeling of friendship among the men/women of the craft and those who may employ its members; to assist its members in securing and obtaining…
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 83% of INTERNATIONAL UNION OF OPERATING ENGINEERS LOCAL 542’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $193,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $256,710 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $63,710 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $36k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PENNSYLVANIA FOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTING | $150,000 |
| PHILLYLABORCOM | $15,500 |
| PHILADELPHIA BUILDING TRADES CHARITY FUND | $10,250 |
| MARCH OF DIMES | $10,250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
11 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- PFPA FOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTING4× · 2017–2020 · $600k
- PFPENNSYLVANIA FOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTING2× · 2023–2024 · $300k · revenue 0% · 32% of their budget
MARCH OF DIMES INC6× · 2018–2024 · $85k · revenue -41%
Funded once
- MDMASON DIXON LLCone grant, 2017 · $16k
- MGMICHAEL G FITZPATRICK FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -76%
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIAgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +72%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The objectives of the philadelphia building trades council are to enlist the voluntary cooperation and support of every eligible local union to the end that wage scales and desirable working conditions may be established and maintained in…
Established exclusively for charitable purposes particularly raising contributions and payment of contributions to organizations described as exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code.
The philadelphia police foundation was established to receive and administer grants and contributions to provide important support and resources to the philadelphia police department to assist the department in ensuring the safety and…
Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.
Promote the interest and welfare of the industry by recommending legislation to protect the trade.
The pennsylvania chamber of business and industry is the largest broad-based business association in pennsylvania. thousands of members throughout the commonwealth employ greater than 50 percent of pennsylvania's private workforce.…
Incorporated in 1945, the pennsylvania builders association is a nonprofit professional trade organization representing approximately 4,066 members from across the commonwealth. pba members include contractors, builders, and remodelers,…
The foundation of the pennsylvania medical society charitable trust is dedicated to advancing the culture of philanthropy and supporting excellence across programs and services provided by the foundation of the pennsylvania medical society.
To provide services to and on behalf of lodge members. services include collective bargaining assistance and communications of issues related to members jobs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Afl-Cio Philadelphia Council and the most unlike its peers is Michael G Fitzpatrick Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 26 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA FOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTING ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATING ENGINEERS NATIONAL CHARITY FUND ↗
- Who funds ST PATRICKS DAY FOUNDATION NYC ↗
- Who funds Rock Minstries of Philadelphia Inc ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA BUILDING TRADES CHARITY FUND ↗
- Who funds MICHAEL G FITZPATRICK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds AFL-CIO PHILADELPHIA COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA AFL-CIO ↗
- Who funds FUELING THE CLIMB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE IRISH SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds B-K HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DELCO GROUP CHARITIES FUND ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization International Union of Operating Engineers Local 542 funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.