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FINISHING TRADES INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND

FINISHING TRADES INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $330,590 to it, the largest being PAINTERS AND ALLIED TRADES LABOR- MANAGEMENT COOPERATION INITIATIVE ($320,481). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$6.7M
Revenue FY2025
2
Funders on record
$331k
Grants received
$21M
Net assets
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%

Against its field

FINISHING TRADES INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 911 employment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin34% · top quartile
Months of reserve19.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 911 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.2M) Expenses 100 ($3.0M) Net assets 100 ($5.3M)2018 Revenue 128 ($4.1M) Expenses 104 ($3.2M) Net assets 117 ($6.2M)2019 Revenue 152 ($4.8M) Expenses 115 ($3.5M) Net assets 142 ($7.5M)2020 Revenue 132 ($4.2M) Expenses 111 ($3.4M) Net assets 158 ($8.4M)2021 Revenue 175 ($5.6M) Expenses 107 ($3.3M) Net assets 202 ($11M)2022 Revenue 184 ($5.9M) Expenses 114 ($3.5M) Net assets 248 ($13M)2023 Revenue 203 ($6.5M) Expenses 123 ($3.8M) Net assets 299 ($16M)2024 Revenue 210 ($6.7M) Expenses 133 ($4.0M) Net assets 349 ($18M)2025 Revenue 211 ($6.7M) Expenses 145 ($4.4M) Net assets 393 ($21M)
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Revenue (211)Expenses (145)Net assets (393)Peer revenue range

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 1% · 2021 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

0% of FINISHING TRADES INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (15% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,613 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$145k
17
$899k
18
$1.3M
19
$858k
20
$2.3M
21
$2.4M
22
$2.7M
23
$2.7M
24
$2.3M
25
19
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $106k.

From the IRS filings of FINISHING TRADES INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.

How concentrated its funding is

FINISHING TRADES INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

97%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 100%broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.

Where its funders are

FINISHING TRADES INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 2 states in all.

MA
MD

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

17
21
23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like FINISHING TRADES INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Massachusetts

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

70% of spending goes to programs.

Program 70%Management 30%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 5 related entities

  • Pdc 35 Pension Fund · exempt
  • Pdc Health Fund · exempt
  • Pdc Annuity Fund · exempt
  • Pdc 35 Administration · exempt
  • Ibpat Realty Trust · corp_trust

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FINISHING TRADES INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds FINISHING TRADES INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND?
FINISHING TRADES INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $330,590 to it, the largest being PAINTERS AND ALLIED TRADES LABOR- MANAGEMENT COOPERATION INITIATIVE ($320,481). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FINISHING TRADES INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $330,590 in grants to FINISHING TRADES INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FINISHING TRADES INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND?
PAINTERS AND ALLIED TRADES LABOR- MANAGEMENT COOPERATION INITIATIVE is the largest funder on record, with $320,481 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FINISHING TRADES INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. What this page cannot tell you · view filing