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International Union of Operating
Washington, DC · EIN 52-1889259. Reported 35 grants totalling $4,484,423 to 29 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
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:
- What kind of organization it is. For International Union of Operating, the IRS classifies it under employment rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE J22) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 29 distinct organizations, with 66% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
- How much its list changes. 7% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 1 year-to-year transition. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $24,007. Half of what it reported fell between $16,501 and $125,000; the smallest was $5,984 and the largest $840,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
27 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $1,120,358 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating Engineers Certification Program | Washington, DC | $2,940,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Stationary Engineers App Training Trust | Washington, DC | $424,065 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Stationary Engineers & Participating Employers Pre Appren | San Francisco, CA | $236,955 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| International Union of Operating Engineers Local 3 | Concord, CA | $151,811 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| International Union of Operating Engineers Lcl 399 Ed Training Fund | Chicago, IL | $128,454 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Operating Engineers Joint Apprenticeship Training Fund | Ft Washington, PA | $90,324 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Local 15 15A 15D Operating Engineer Apprenticeship Skill Improvement | Long Is City, NY | $67,330 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Operating Engineers Local 101 | Weston, MO | $63,444 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Operating Engineers Local 478 Apprenticeship Training & Skill Im | Hamden, CT | $43,591 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| International Union of Operating Engineers Apprenticeship & Skill | Huntington, WV | $43,253 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Western Pennsylvania Operating Engineers & Joint Apprenticeship | New Alexandri, PA | $24,915 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Operating Engineers Local 520 Joint Apprenticeship and Training Fund | Saint Jacob, IL | $24,007 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Operating Engineers Local 17 Training Fund | Lake View, NY | $22,964 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Operating Engineers Apprenticeship Trust Fund Local 649 | Bartonville, IL | $20,979 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Operating Engineers Apprshp & Skill Improvement Committee for Cent Il | Mechanicsburg, IL | $19,614 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Iuoe Local 25 Training Fund | Millstone Twp, NJ | $18,445 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Arizona Operating Engineers Joint Apprenticeship Fund | CASA Grande, AZ | $18,388 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| International Union of Operating Engineers Local Union 450 Apprenti | Dayton, TX | $18,361 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Iuoe Local 369 Training Fund | Cordova, TN | $17,671 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| International Union of Operating Engineers | Dallas, TX | $17,134 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| International Union of Operating Engineers Local 877 Apprentice | Norwood, MA | $16,501 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| International Union of Operating Engineers Local 98 Training Fund | Southwick, MA | $14,995 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Iuoe Local 318 Apprenticeship Fund | Marion, IL | $12,800 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Local 57 Operating Engineers Apprenticeship & Skill Improvement | Johnston, RI | $11,110 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| International Union of Operating Engineers Local 891 Education and | Brooklyn, NY | $10,222 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| International Union of Operating Engineers Local 295-295C Joint | Maspeth, NY | $7,506 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Operating Engineers Local 312 | Birmingham, AL | $7,405 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Operating Engineers 474 Apprenticeship Trust Fund | Goodlettsvlle, TN | $6,195 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Local 420 Iuoe - Employers Cooperation Skill Improve and Educ | Oak Creek, WI | $5,984 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
2 of 29 (7%) 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 kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 13 of 29 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 2 | $859,065 | $429,532 |
| 2021 | 29 | $2,010,358 | $19,614 |
| 2022 | 2 | $890,000 | $445,000 |
| 2023 | 2 | $725,000 | $362,500 |
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
75% of its giving went to organizations in District of Columbia. 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.
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How to approach this grantmaker
- 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.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $24,007 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in District of Columbia.
- 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.
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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 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 1 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 1125 17TH Street Nw, Washington, DC, 20036.
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