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INDIANA ILLINOIS & IOWA FOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTING

INDIANA ILLINOIS & IOWA FOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTING (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $35,522,500 to it, the largest being MIDWEST OPERATING ENGINEERS CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY & SERVICE TRUST FUND ($35,522,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$5.0M
Revenue FY2025
1
Funders on record
$36M
Grants received
$1.6M
Net assets
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 99%

Against its field

INDIANA ILLINOIS & IOWA FOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTING's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin−3% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below 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 ($3.6M) Expenses 100 ($3.8M) Net assets 100 ($302k)2018 Revenue 81 ($2.9M) Expenses 70 ($2.6M) Net assets 196 ($592k)2019 Revenue 93 ($3.4M) Expenses 81 ($3.1M) Net assets 252 ($762k)2020 Revenue 103 ($3.7M) Expenses 89 ($3.4M) Net assets 304 ($919k)2021 Revenue 125 ($4.5M) Expenses 90 ($3.4M) Net assets 583 ($1.8M)2022 Revenue 111 ($4.1M) Expenses 99 ($3.8M) Net assets 581 ($1.8M)2023 Revenue 125 ($4.6M) Expenses 117 ($4.4M) Net assets 511 ($1.5M)2024 Revenue 161 ($5.9M) Expenses 129 ($4.9M) Net assets 705 ($2.1M)2025 Revenue 136 ($5.0M) Expenses 135 ($5.1M) Net assets 531 ($1.6M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (136)Expenses (135)Net assets (531)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

97% of INDIANA ILLINOIS & IOWA FOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTING’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (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. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$143k
17
$285k
18
$312k
19
$391k
20
$1.1M
21
$295k
22
$154k
23
$985k
24
$159k
25
2.1
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $3.6M → $4.2M.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of INDIANA ILLINOIS & IOWA FOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTING’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.

Where its funders are

100% of INDIANA ILLINOIS & IOWA FOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTING's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL

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

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20
21
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23
Illinois 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 INDIANA ILLINOIS & IOWA FOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTING

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 Illinois

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 10 related entities

  • Local 150 Iuoe Vacation Savings Plan · exempt
  • Moe Construction Ind& Serv Trust Fund · exempt
  • Moe Health and Welfare Plan · exempt
  • Midwest Operating Engineers Pension Fund · exempt
  • Retirement Enhancement Fund · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INDIANA ILLINOIS & IOWA FOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTING: 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 INDIANA ILLINOIS & IOWA FOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTING?
INDIANA ILLINOIS & IOWA FOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTING (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $35,522,500 to it, the largest being MIDWEST OPERATING ENGINEERS CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY & SERVICE TRUST FUND ($35,522,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does INDIANA ILLINOIS & IOWA FOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTING have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $35,522,500 in grants to INDIANA ILLINOIS & IOWA FOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTING, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of INDIANA ILLINOIS & IOWA FOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTING?
MIDWEST OPERATING ENGINEERS CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY & SERVICE TRUST FUND is the largest funder on record, with $35,522,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like INDIANA ILLINOIS & IOWA FOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTING find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 1funders 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