Connecticut · Nonprofit
FINISHING TRADES INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC
FINISHING TRADES INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,565,814 to it, the largest being CONNECTICUT STATE BUILDING TRADES TRAINING INSTITUTE INC ($530,200). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What Finishing Trades Institute of Southern New England Inc does
Mission
Maintenance of a joint apprentice training program in connecticut and rhode island for eligible members of district council 11, providing educational programs, on-site training, continued skills development, and safety training.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Maintenance of a joint apprentice training program in connecticut and rhode island for eligible members of district council 11, providing educational programs, on-site training, continued skills development, and safety training.
$1,811,725 spent$2,783,615 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,811,725.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.7M to $2.2M (+28%).
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: 2021 9% · 2022 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
16% of FINISHING TRADES INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $206k → $265k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $50k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest District Council 11 Labor Management Cooperative Initiative). These are real filings, and they are not money FINISHING TRADES INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC raised.
From the IRS filings of FINISHING TRADES INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
FINISHING TRADES INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund FINISHING TRADES INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 61% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 59% · 2022 51% · 2023 58% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
67% of FINISHING TRADES INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
FINISHING TRADES INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like FINISHING TRADES INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FINISHING TRADES INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC: 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds FINISHING TRADES INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC?
- FINISHING TRADES INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,565,814 to it, the largest being CONNECTICUT STATE BUILDING TRADES TRAINING INSTITUTE INC ($530,200). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FINISHING TRADES INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $1,565,814 in grants to FINISHING TRADES INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FINISHING TRADES INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC?
- CONNECTICUT STATE BUILDING TRADES TRAINING INSTITUTE INC is the largest funder on record, with $530,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FINISHING TRADES INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 funders 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. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing