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MACHINERY MOVERS RIGGERS AND ERECTORS UNION LOCAL #136 TRAINING TRUST

MACHINERY MOVERS RIGGERS AND ERECTORS UNION LOCAL #136 TRAINING TRUST (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $23,067 to it, the largest being Chicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative ($23,067). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$453k
Revenue FY2025
1
Funders on record
$23k
Grants received
$2.0M
Net assets
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%

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 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($312k) Expenses 100 ($227k) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2021 Revenue 65 ($203k) Expenses 88 ($200k) Net assets 118 ($1.5M)2022 Revenue 115 ($359k) Expenses 111 ($252k) Net assets 103 ($1.3M)2023 Revenue 153 ($477k) Expenses 132 ($299k) Net assets 122 ($1.6M)2024 Revenue 112 ($348k) Expenses 110 ($250k) Net assets 136 ($1.8M)2025 Revenue 145 ($453k) Expenses 99 ($225k) Net assets 156 ($2.0M)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (145)Expenses (99)Net assets (156)

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$85k
’20
$4k
’21
$107k
’22
$178k
’23
$97k
’24
$229k
’25
16
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $7k → $16k.

Funder
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of MACHINERY MOVERS RIGGERS AND ERECTORS UNION LOCAL #136 TRAINING TRUST’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.

Where its funders are

100% of MACHINERY MOVERS RIGGERS AND ERECTORS UNION LOCAL #136 TRAINING TRUST's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL

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

’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

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.

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 MACHINERY MOVERS RIGGERS AND ERECTORS UNION LOCAL #136 TRAINING TRUST

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

Machinery Movers Riggers and Erectors Union Local #13688%Architectual Metal Trainee School for 63 and the Iron League of Chicago81%Sheet Metal Workers' Local 218(S) Apprentice Training and Development Fund79%Operating Engineers Local 150 Apprenticeship Fund79%Operating Engineers Local 318 Joint Apprenticeship & Advanced Training78%Ibew Local 196neca Safety and Education Trust Fund77%Mechanics Local 701 Training Fund76%The Apprentice Training Fund for Local 1 of the Iabsoiw76%

Nationally

Machinery Movers Riggers and Erectors Union Local #13688%Architectual Metal Trainee School for 63 and the Iron League of Chicago81%Joint Apprenticeship and Training Trust Fund Local 103 Ibew80%Apprenticeship & Training Trust Fund Ua Local 34280%International Union of Oper Eng Local 30 Apprentice Train & Skill Improvement Fd79%Sheet Metal Workers' Local 218(S) Apprentice Training and Development Fund79%Local 697 Ibew Apprentice79%Operating Engineers Local 150 Apprenticeship Fund79%
04Profile & governance

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

Governance

8
board members
75%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Machinery Mvrs Local #136 Welfare Fund · exempt
  • Machinery Mvrs Local #136 Def Cont Fund · exempt
  • Machinery Mvrs Local #136 Sup Ret Fund · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MACHINERY MOVERS RIGGERS AND ERECTORS UNION LOCAL #136 TRAINING TRUST: 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 MACHINERY MOVERS RIGGERS AND ERECTORS UNION LOCAL #136 TRAINING TRUST?
MACHINERY MOVERS RIGGERS AND ERECTORS UNION LOCAL #136 TRAINING TRUST (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $23,067 to it, the largest being Chicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative ($23,067). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MACHINERY MOVERS RIGGERS AND ERECTORS UNION LOCAL #136 TRAINING TRUST have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $23,067 in grants to MACHINERY MOVERS RIGGERS AND ERECTORS UNION LOCAL #136 TRAINING TRUST, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MACHINERY MOVERS RIGGERS AND ERECTORS UNION LOCAL #136 TRAINING TRUST?
Chicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative is the largest funder on record, with $23,067 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MACHINERY MOVERS RIGGERS AND ERECTORS UNION LOCAL #136 TRAINING TRUST 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 2020–2025), 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. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing