Massachusetts · Nonprofit
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.
Against its field
FINISHING TRADES INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 911 employment nonprofits its size.
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.
- Boston After School & Beyond Inclocal
- Iupat - Finishing Trades Instituteportfolio match
- Chicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiativeportfolio match
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.
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.
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).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
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
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.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
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.
- Boston After School & Beyond InclocalMA · funds 155 organizations near you
- Iupat - Finishing Trades Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiativeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cpwr the Center for Construction Research and Trainingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Building Futuresportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tradesfuturesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jobs for the Future Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- International Union of Painters and Allied Tradesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Amalgamated Transit Unionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Bouncer Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- International Union of Painters and Allied Trades District Council No 9portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- International Union of Operating Engineers National Training Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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.
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