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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…

$257k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Employment$900kHealth$111kReligion$52kPublic Safety & Disaster$50kCrime & Legal$44kArts & Culture$41kPhilanthropy$30kMembership Benefit$17kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $193,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $256,710 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $63,710 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $36k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
$10,250
Median grant
3
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%REBUILDING AMERCIAN VALUES: $15k → 6%MASON DIXON LLC: $16k → 9%FUELING THE CLIMB FOUNDATION: $6k → 10%NEPA COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE: $5k → 11%PA FOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTING: $150k → 11%PENNSYLVANIA AFL-CIO: $8k → 12%PHILLY HURRICANES YOUTH ORGANIZATION: $5k → 22%THE PATRICKS DAY FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%MARCH OF DIMES: $25k → 17%IUOE CHARITY FUND: $25k → 14%DIFFERENT BREED BOXING: $7k → 7%JETER PROMOTIONS: $7k → 7%REBUILDING AMERCIAN VALUES: $10k → 6%DELCO GROUP CHARITIES FUND: $5k → 10%PA FOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTING: $150k → 11%CONGREGATION BETH SOLOMON: $16k → 22%ST PATRICKS DAY FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%MARCH OF DIMES: $15k → 17%OPERATING ENGINEERS NATIONAL CHARITY FUND: $25k → 14%MICHAEL G FITZPATRICK FOUNDATION: $10k → 6%PENNSYLVANIA FOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTING: $150k → 11%CONGREGATION BETH SOLOMON: $9k → 22%MARCH OF DIMES: $15k → 17%SAMUEL STATEN SR CHARITY: $5k → 6%PA FOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTING: $150k → 11%CONGREGATION BETH SOLOMON: $8k → 22%MARCH OF DIMES: $15k → 17%SAMUEL STATEN SR CHARITY: $5k → 6%PA FOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTING: $150k → 11%PHILADELPHIA BUILDING TRADES CHARITY FUND: $10k → 22%MARCH OF DIMES: $10k → 17%PENNSYLVANIA FOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTING: $150k → 11%CONGREGATION BETH SOLOMON: $8k → 22%MARCH OF DIMES: $5k → 17%PHILA BLDG TRADES CHARITY FUND: $5k → 22%CONGREGATION BETH SOLOMON: $6k → 22%PHILLYLABORCOM: $16k → 22%PHILADELPHIA COUNCIL AFL-CIO: $9k → 22%THE ROCK MINISTRIES: $12k → 22%BLACK BRAIN CAMPAIGN: $5k → 22%THE ROCK MINISTRIES: $7k → 22%CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $10k → 22%BOBBY HEENAN LEGAL DEFENSE FUND: $15k → 22%BOBBY HEENAN LEGAL DEFENSE FUND: $10k → 22%IRISH SOCIETY: $5k → 22%ST FRANCIS INN MINISTRIES: $5k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 11 repeat orgs$118k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
13

Total granted

$1.2M
$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+35%

Still filing today

55%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureEmploymentCrime & LegalEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • PF
    PA FOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTING
    4× · 2017–2020 · $600k
  • PF
    PENNSYLVANIA FOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTING
    2× · 2023–2024 · $300k · revenue 0% · 32% of their budget
  • MARCH OF DIMES INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $85k · revenue -41%

Funded once

  • MD
    MASON DIXON LLC
    one grant, 2017 · $16k
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIAgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +72%
  • MG
    MICHAEL G FITZPATRICK FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -76%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
American Federation of Labor & Phila Building Trades Council Afl-Cio

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…

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2
Phillies Charities Inc

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.

Philanthropy
3
Philadelphia Police Foundation

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…

Crime & Legal
4
Philadelphia Health Partnership
Health
5
Pidc Development Management Corporation

Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.

Community Improvement
6
Ppf Pennsylvania State Association

Promote the interest and welfare of the industry by recommending legislation to protect the trade.

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7
Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution
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8
Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry

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.…

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9
Pennsylvania Builders Association

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,…

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10
Pennsylvania Medical Society Charitable Trust Fka Fdn of the Pa Medical Society

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.

Health
11
Pennsylvania State Lodge Fraternal Order of Police

To provide services to and on behalf of lodge members. services include collective bargaining assistance and communications of issues related to members jobs.

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12
Golf Association of Philadelphia Foundation
Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Afl-Cio Philadelphia Council; 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.
04the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PA FOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTING: $600,150 · OtherPA FOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTINGPENNSYLVANIA FOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTING: $300,000 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA FOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTINGCONGREGATION BETH SOLOMON: $46,600 · Other+13 more: $142,075 · Other+13 moreMARCH OF DIMES INC: $85,250 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $10,000 · HealthFUELING THE CLIMB FOUNDATION: $5,500 · HealthOPERATING ENGINEERS NATIONAL CHARITY FUND: $50,000 · EmploymentST PATRICKS DAY FOUNDATION NYC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHE IRISH SOCIETY: $5,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA BUILDING TRADES CHARITY FUND: $15,250 · PhilanthropyDELCO GROUP CHARITIES FUND: $5,000 · PhilanthropyRock Minstries of Philadelphia Inc: $19,000 · Crime & LegalMICHAEL G FITZPATRICK FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Education
Other$1,088,825Health$100,750Employment$50,000Arts & Culture$25,000Philanthropy$20,250Crime & Legal$19,000Education$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPENNSYLVANIA FOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTING: $300,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $85,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATING ENGINEERS NATIONAL CHARITY FUND: $50,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetST PATRICKS DAY FOUNDATION NYC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetRock Minstries of Philadelphia Inc: $19,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetPHILADELPHIA BUILDING TRADES CHARITY FUND: $15,250 over 2y, 11% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMICHAEL G FITZPATRICK FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetAFL-CIO PHILADELPHIA COUNCIL: $8,775 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA AFL-CIO: $7,800 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFUELING THE CLIMB FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetDELCO GROUP CHARITIES FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTHE IRISH SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 23% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization International Union of Operating Engineers Local 542 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from International Union of Operating Engineers Local 542. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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