GrantmakersMassachusetts

International Union of Operating

Medway, MA · EIN 04-6254465. Reported 136 grants totalling $4,645,427 to 45 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

45organizations funded
$21,680median reported grant
$4,645,427granted, 2021-2024
80%of grantees funded again the next year
9%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 45 distinct organizations, with 9% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 80% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $21,680. Half of what it reported fell between $12,000 and $43,867; the smallest was $5,055 and the largest $211,869. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
27 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
51 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
27 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
25 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
6 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Barletta Heavy DivisionCanton, MA$429,238442024
Borggaard Construction CorpN Grafton, MA$345,694442024
JR Vinagro CorpJohnston, RI$300,539442024
Lawrence-Lynch CorpFalmouth, MA$285,982842024
Albanese D&s IncDracut, MA$284,334442024
D W White ConstructionAcushnet, MA$264,808222024
Wl French Excavating CorpN Billerica, MA$236,077442024
D & R General ContractingMelrose, MA$217,465742024
Bond Civil & Utility Construction IncMedford, MA$203,617542024
Skanska - Dw White JvWaltham, MA$198,249332023
E T & L Construction CorpStow, MA$159,477332023
J Derenzo CoBrockton, MA$148,281332023
Sps New England IncSalisbury, MA$143,393442024
Northern General ContractorsPalmer, MA$138,543442024
Revoli Construction Co IncFranklin, MA$102,743442024
Mccourt ConstructionS Boston, MA$102,450442024
Jh Lynch & SonsCumberland, RI$94,086442024
Kjs LLCWalpole, MA$85,830442024
Baltazar Contractors IncLudlow, MA$83,665442024
S & R CorporationLowell, MA$75,335542024
Pj Keating Co (paving)Lunenburg, MA$72,679442024
Fred Deroma & SonRoslindale, MA$59,713442024
A a Will CorpStoughton, MA$58,221332024
Fed CorpDedham, MA$57,882442024
Albanese Bros IncDracut, MA$50,539222022
United Civil IncMiddleton, MA$50,277332024
Rudy V Pompeo IncWeymouth, MA$46,265222023
A Vozzella & SonsBrockton, MA$43,601442024
Kenneth R RezendesAssonet, MA$37,954222023
Marois Bros IncWorcester, MA$32,500112021
Mattuchio Construction Co IncMalden, MA$28,210222022
George Brox Paving CoDracut, MA$28,045222022
George R Cairns & SonsWindham, NH$27,920222022
David G Roach & SonsS Barre, MA$27,834332024
Aggregate IndustriesDundee, MI$21,776222023
Ch Nickerson & Co IncTorrington, CT$20,888222024
Manafort Brothers Transit LLCPlainville, CT$13,971222024
Norwalk Marine ContractorsStratford, CT$12,124112024
Dgi-Menard IncCarnegie, PA$12,000112024
Shawmut Equipment Co IncManchester, CT$9,600112024
T & M Equipment CorpSpringfield, MA$8,676112023
Ernest Guigli & SonsNatick, MA$7,780112021
Jf White Contracting CompanyFramingham, MA$6,592112021
Lal Construction CoFall River, MA$5,389112023
Phoenix Foundation CompanyUxbridge, MA$5,185112021

36 of 45 (80%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202138$1,210,442$21,888
202234$1,290,780$24,181
202334$975,889$19,707
202430$1,168,316$19,142

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

89% of its giving went to organizations in Massachusetts. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Massachusetts
$4.1M
Rhode Island
$395K
Connecticut
$57K
New Hampshire
$28K
Michigan
$22K
Pennsylvania
$12K

Down to the city

Canton, MA
$429K
Dracut, MA
$363K
N Grafton, MA
$346K
Johnston, RI
$301K
Falmouth, MA
$286K
Acushnet, MA
$265K

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How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $21,680 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Massachusetts.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from International Union of Operating's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 16 Trotter Drive, Medway, MA, 02053.

EIN 04-6254465 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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