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Midwest Operating Engineers Construction Industry & Service Trust Fund

To assist workers and employers in solving problems of mutual concern and to expand the market for the construction industry.

$14M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
4
Itemized grants FY2025
4
Organizations funded FY2024
25%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$14M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$4,400,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$8,145,091
Organizations funded a year
3 to 4
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$9.7M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Midwest Operating Engineers Construction Industry & Service Trust Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EmploymentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving4$14M0%
FY20244$16M25%
FY20234$16M0%
FY20224$12M25%
FY20213$9.8M0%
FY20203$9.0M0%
FY20193$8.5M0%
FY20183$9.5M0%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Community Improvement$51MEmployment$41MArts & Culture$9.6MCivil Rights$3.1M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Chicago Operators Joint Management PAC$57,141,5099n/a
Indiana Illinois & Iowa Foundation for Fair Contracting$35,522,500999%
Fight Back Fund$5,660,000241%
North Indiana Operation Joint Lbr Mgmt PAC$4,315,0009n/a
Fight Back Fund$2,272,3162n/a

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About Midwest Operating Engineers Construction Industry & Service Trust Fund

How much does Midwest Operating Engineers Construction Industry & Service Trust Fund give?
Midwest Operating Engineers Construction Industry & Service Trust Fund reported 4 itemized grants totaling $13,625,443, out of $14,418,298 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 4 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Midwest Operating Engineers Construction Industry & Service Trust Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (49%), Employment (39%), Arts & Culture (9%).
Who are Midwest Operating Engineers Construction Industry & Service Trust Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Chicago Operators Joint Management PAC ($57M), Indiana Illinois & Iowa Foundation for Fair Contracting ($36M), Fight Back Fund ($5.7M).
Does Midwest Operating Engineers Construction Industry & Service Trust Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Midwest Operating Engineers Construction Industry & Service Trust Fund based?
Midwest Operating Engineers Construction Industry & Service Trust Fund is based in IL.

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 5 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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