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PENNSYLVANIA FOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTING

PENNSYLVANIA FOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTING (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $300,000 to it, the largest being INTERNATIONAL UNION OF OPERATING ENGINEERS LOCAL 542 ($300,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$468k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$300k
Net assets
$247k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 32%
01What it does

What Pennsylvania Foundation for Fair Contracting does

Mission

Support, promote, and encourage fair contracting in the construction arena to benefit taxpayers, contractors, and workers.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Pennsylvania Foundation for Fair Contracting is a not-for-profit organization established to support, promote and encourage fair contracting by providing a level playing field in the public construction arena for the benefit of taxpayers, contractors and workers.

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990.

02The 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 ($492k) Expenses 100 ($435k) Net assets 100 ($251k)2021 Revenue 109 ($539k) Expenses 104 ($451k) Net assets 135 ($339k)2022 Revenue 95 ($468k) Expenses 106 ($463k) Net assets 137 ($344k)2023 Revenue 95 ($468k) Expenses 110 ($479k) Net assets 133 ($334k)2024 Revenue 95 ($468k) Expenses 113 ($492k) Net assets 123 ($310k)2025 Revenue 95 ($468k) Expenses 122 ($531k) Net assets 98 ($247k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (95)Expenses (122)Net assets (98)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $251k to $339k (+35%).

$251k
$339k
$344k
$334k
$310k
$247k
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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: 2020 2% · 2021 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$57k
’20
$88k
’21
$5k
’22
−$11k
’23
−$24k
’24
−$63k
’25
4.6
months of
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.

Chief executive

James Kunz Iii

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202020212022202320242025
Listed355555
Joined·+2+1+0+3+1
No longer listed·01031
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of PENNSYLVANIA FOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTING’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 PENNSYLVANIA FOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTING's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like PENNSYLVANIA FOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTING

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In Pennsylvania

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PENNSYLVANIA 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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Questions and answers

Who funds PENNSYLVANIA FOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTING?
PENNSYLVANIA FOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTING (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $300,000 to it, the largest being INTERNATIONAL UNION OF OPERATING ENGINEERS LOCAL 542 ($300,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PENNSYLVANIA FOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTING have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $300,000 in grants to PENNSYLVANIA FOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTING, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PENNSYLVANIA FOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTING?
INTERNATIONAL UNION OF OPERATING ENGINEERS LOCAL 542 is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PENNSYLVANIA FOUNDATION FOR FAIR CONTRACTING find more funders?
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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 1 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