Forging Industry Educational and Research Foundation
The forging industry's own foundation, established in 1961 as a supporting organization to the Forging Industry Association, that works backward from the shop floor to the classroom, paying for research grants, scholarships, forging clubs and summer camps so that a trade most people never see will still have its engineers and workers a generation from now.
Financial profile
Forging Industry Educational and Research Foundation · EIN 34-6556992 · 501(c)(3)
| Fiscal year | Total revenue | Contributions | Program services | Total expenses | Net assets | Year end |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024 | $396,575 | $202,122 | $31,552 | $344,627 | $3,444,749 | May 2024 |
| FY2023 | $543,686 | $338,657 | $102,433 | $421,267 | $3,033,760 | May 2023 |
| FY2022 | $840,230 | $274,216 | $57,247 | $318,309 | $3,014,320 | May 2022 |
| FY2021 | $279,249 | $126,000 | $0 | $190,016 | $3,355,371 | May 2021 |
| FY2020 | $333,397 | $289,400 | $0 | $386,036 | $2,803,955 | May 2020 |
| FY2019 | $473,701 | $240,020 | $154,035 | $420,762 | $2,723,498 | May 2019 |
Figures exactly as reported. A blank cell was blank on the form. The fiscal year links to the filing.
Peer societies
Five societies Forging Foundation is read alongside.
FEF
Foundry Educational Foundation
The talent pipeline of the metalcasting industry, born in 1947 from a postwar shortage of skilled hands, that…
94 companies named
MPMAF
Motion + Power Manufacturers Alliance Foundation
The workforce conscience of an old and exacting manufacturing craft, quietly funding the people who will keep…
26 companies named
WRC
Welding Research Council
A nonprofit cooperative research body that pools industry, technical, and government expertise to solve…
UEF
United Engineering Foundation
A foundation formed by the major engineering societies to advance the engineering arts and sciences for the…
AFS
American Foundry Society
North America's metalcasting community, advancing the craft and competitiveness of foundries through…
16 companies named
Who backs Forging Foundation
Every company Forging Foundation names publicly as a supporter, exactly as published. Companies also named by other associations on Sociogene come first.
| Company | Support as published | Also named by |
|---|---|---|
| Viking Forge | Other | Only Forging Foundation, so far |
| Wozniak Industries | Other | Only Forging Foundation, so far |
Sources: 1 published list, read October 2026
Forge the Future Summer Camp: With Support From. Read October 20, 2026. Company supporters of the 2026 Forge the Future Summer Camps.
Who backs Forging Foundation's peers, but not Forging Foundation
Companies named publicly by at least one of Forging Foundation's five peer societies, and not found in Forging Foundation's reviewed public records.
| Company | FEF | MPMAF | AFS | Peers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caterpillar | Named | Friends | 2 of 3 | |
| ECK Industries | Named | Gold | 2 of 3 | |
| EJ | Named | Gold | 2 of 3 | |
| Inductotherm | Named | Gold | 2 of 3 | |
| Laempe ReichPublished as Laempe & Reich Corporation | Named | Gold | 2 of 3 | |
| A.Y. McDonald ManufacturingPublished as A. Y. McDonald Mfg. Co. | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Aalberts Surface Technologies | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Accurate Castings | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Acme Foundry | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Air Products & Chemicals | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Allied Mineral Products | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| American Bronze | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| American Cast Iron PipePublished as American Cast Iron Pipe Co. | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| American Colloid | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Amsted Rail | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Artec Machine Systems | Friends | 1 of 3 | ||
| Ash Gear & Supply | Friends | 1 of 3 | ||
| Atlanta Gear Works | Partners | 1 of 3 | ||
| Aurora Metals Division | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| B&R Machine and Gear | Benefactors | 1 of 3 | ||
| Badger Mining | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Bender Foundry Service | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Betz Industries | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Bingham and Taylor | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Brelie GearPublished as Brelie Gear Company, Inc. | Friends | 1 of 3 | ||
| Cadillac Casting | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Carpenter Brothers | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| CGI | Friends | 1 of 3 | ||
| Charlotte Pipe & FoundryPublished as Charlotte Pipe & Foundry Co. | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Circle Gear and MachinePublished as Circle Gear and Machine Company | Friends | 1 of 3 | ||
| Clow ValvePublished as Clow Valve/McWane | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Cooper Hayes | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Croix Gear | Partners | 1 of 3 | ||
| Didion International | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| DISAPublished as DISA - A Norican Tech | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Dodge Industrial | Friends | 1 of 3 | ||
| Durametal | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Eirich Machines | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Ervin Industries | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| ExOne | Gold | 1 of 3 | ||
| Fairbanks Morse Defense | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Farrar | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Federal Gear and Machine | Partners | 1 of 3 | ||
| Ford Meter BoxPublished as Ford Meter Box Company, Inc. | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Forest City Gear | Benefactors | 1 of 3 | ||
| General Kinematics | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| General Motors | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Goldens' Foundry | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Grede | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Griswold Industries | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| HA Group | Gold | 1 of 3 | ||
| HA International | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Hay Melting Solutions | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Helios Gear Products | Friends | 1 of 3 | ||
| Henry Perkins CompanyPublished as The Henry Perkins Company | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Hickman, Williams & Company | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Hill & GriffithPublished as Hill & Griffith Company | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Hitchiner ManufacturingPublished as Hitchiner Manufacturing Co., Inc | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Hoosier | Gold | 1 of 3 | ||
| Howmet Aerospace | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Humtown | Gold | 1 of 3 | ||
| iD Castings | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Index Technologies | Friends | 1 of 3 | ||
| International Precision MachiningPublished as International Precision Machining, Inc. (IPM) | Friends | 1 of 3 | ||
| John Bouchard & SonsPublished as John Bouchard & Sons Company | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| John Deere | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| KHK USA | Partners | 1 of 3 | ||
| Lawton StandardPublished as Lawton Standard Co.* | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Liberty Pattern | Gold | 1 of 3 | ||
| Liebherr | Friends | 1 of 3 | ||
| Littlestown Foundry | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Lodge ManufacturingPublished as Lodge Manufacturing Company | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| M&H ValvePublished as M & H Valve/McWane | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Magaldi Technologies | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| MAGMA Foundry Technologies | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Manitowoc Grey Iron Foundry | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Master Power Transmission | Friends | 1 of 3 | ||
| Matthews | Gold | 1 of 3 | ||
| Matthews International | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Matthews Memorialization | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| McWane | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| ME Elecmetal | Gold | 1 of 3 | ||
| Melt-Tech | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Mercury Marine Castings | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Metal Technologies | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Metaltek International | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Miller and Company | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| MPS Mankato | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Mueller Water Products | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Neenah Enterprises | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Olson Aluminum Castings | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| OmniSource | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Osco Industries | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| PDA | Gold | 1 of 3 | ||
| Peter E Macler Associates | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Philadelphia GearPublished as Philadelphia Gear, Powered Systems by Timken | Partners | 1 of 3 | ||
| Piedmont Foundry Supply | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Piselli Enterprises | Patrons | 1 of 3 | ||
| Pittsburgh Foundry & Machine | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Premier Aluminum | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| ResandPublished as Resand Oy | Gold | 1 of 3 | ||
| Rochester Gear | Friends | 1 of 3 | ||
| Rochester Metal Products | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Schafer Industries | Patrons | 1 of 3 | ||
| Scot ForgePublished as Scot Forge Company | Friends | 1 of 3 | ||
| Scott SalesPublished as Scott Sales Co. | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| SELEE | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Seneca Foundry | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Signicast Investment Castings | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Silver Dollar Castings | Gold | 1 of 3 | ||
| Simpson Technologies | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Southern Alloy | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Southern Cast Products | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Specialty Foundry Products | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| St. Marys Foundry | Gold | 1 of 3 | ||
| Star SU | Partners | 1 of 3 | ||
| Steel Dynamics | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Tinker Omega Sinto | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Torrance Casting | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Trumbull Foundry and Alloy | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Twin Disc | Friends | 1 of 3 | ||
| Tyler UnionPublished as Tyler/Union - McWane | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Vision MaterialsPublished as Vision Materials, LLC* | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Voxeljet America | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| WaterousPublished as Waterous Company | Friends | 1 of 3 | ||
| Watry Industries | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Waupaca | Gold | 1 of 3 | ||
| Waupaca Foundry | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Whibco | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Wisconsin Aluminum FoundryPublished as Wisconsin Aluminum Foundry Co | Named | 1 of 3 | ||
| Woodland Alloy Casting | Named | 1 of 3 |
The outside view
The forging industry's own foundation, established in 1961 as a supporting organization to the Forging Industry Association, that works backward from the shop floor to the classroom, paying for research grants, scholarships, forging clubs and summer camps so that a trade most people never see will still have its engineers and workers a generation from now.
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Their shape
The League
Far-flung, and stronger for it.
The League is a federation of many, where the value lives in the connections between its members and chapters. Its gift is reach and resilience, its challenge is holding a shared identity across all its parts.
Also reads toward The Guild and The Frontier.
Strengths
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