Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
OPERATING ENGINEERS NATIONAL CHARITY FUND
OPERATING ENGINEERS NATIONAL CHARITY FUND (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,071,000 to it, the largest being INTERNATIONAL UNION OF OPERATING ENGINEERS' LOCAL 324 ($374,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
OPERATING ENGINEERS NATIONAL CHARITY FUND runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,269 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,269 employment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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.
- Chicago Journeymen Plumbers' Local Union 130 Uashared fundersportfolio match
- Laborers' Int'L Union of North America District Council of Chicagoshared funders
- Teamsters Union Local 25 Affiliated With Ibtportfolio 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.
77% of OPERATING ENGINEERS NATIONAL CHARITY FUND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (54% 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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $172k → $125k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $894k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest International Union of Operating Engineers). These are real filings, and they are not money OPERATING ENGINEERS NATIONAL CHARITY FUND raised.
From the IRS filings of OPERATING ENGINEERS NATIONAL CHARITY FUND’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
OPERATING ENGINEERS NATIONAL CHARITY FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 60%; 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 OPERATING ENGINEERS NATIONAL CHARITY FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 89% · 2020 48% · 2021 48% · 2022 50% · 2023 40% — broadly stable.
“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.
How long its funders stay
30% of OPERATING ENGINEERS NATIONAL CHARITY FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
OPERATING ENGINEERS NATIONAL CHARITY FUND draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 11 states in all.
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.
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. Your 16 funders put you under-funded among the 138 organizations that share them.
- Chicago Journeymen Plumbers' Local Union 130 Uashared fundersportfolio matchIL · backs 6 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Laborers' Int'L Union of North America District Council of Chicagoshared fundersIL · backs 11 organizations that share your funders
- Teamsters Union Local 25 Affiliated With Ibtportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- L John & Deborah Arbizzani Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New York City & Vicinity District Council Ubcjaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cutco Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kid Rock Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Int'L Orthodox Christian Charities Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Carpenter Contractor Alliance of Metropolitan New York Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 731 Unionshared fundersIL · backs 5 organizations that share your funders
- American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees Council 31shared fundersIL · backs 5 organizations that share your funders
- Chicago Federation of Labor and Industrial Union Councilshared fundersIL · backs 8 organizations that share your funders
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 OPERATING ENGINEERS NATIONAL CHARITY FUND
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 10 related entities
- International Union of Operating Engineers · exempt
- Epec Separate Education Fund · exempt
- Epec Ny Education Fund · exempt
- Epec Voluntary Fund · exempt
- Engineers Action Response Network · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OPERATING ENGINEERS NATIONAL CHARITY FUND: 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 OPERATING ENGINEERS NATIONAL CHARITY FUND?
- OPERATING ENGINEERS NATIONAL CHARITY FUND (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,071,000 to it, the largest being INTERNATIONAL UNION OF OPERATING ENGINEERS' LOCAL 324 ($374,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OPERATING ENGINEERS NATIONAL CHARITY FUND have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,071,000 in grants to OPERATING ENGINEERS NATIONAL CHARITY FUND, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPERATING ENGINEERS NATIONAL CHARITY FUND?
- INTERNATIONAL UNION OF OPERATING ENGINEERS' LOCAL 324 is the largest funder on record, with $374,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPERATING ENGINEERS NATIONAL CHARITY FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 16funders 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