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Amalgamated Transit Union

The object of the international union shall be to organize local unions. To place our occupation on a higher plane of intelligence, efficiency and skill; encourage settlement of disputes between employees and employers; secure employment and adequate pay for our work. To engage in such legislative, political, educational, cultural,…

$872k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
18
Itemized grants FY2025
8
Organizations funded FY2024
75%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$800k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$500,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 8
FY2022 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
13
Total assets, FY2025
$249M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 75% of the organizations Amalgamated Transit Union funded were first-time grantees, receiving 74% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $146k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

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Civil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving18$800k83%
FY20248$196k75%
FY20238$260k50%
FY20225$180kn/a
88% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Community Improvement$550kCivil Rights$239kEmployment$170kPublic Benefit$104kSocial Science$100kEnvironment$50kArts & Culture$35kMembership Benefit$25kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
DC
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Development Now for Chicago$500,0001n/a
Coalition to Protect Workers Rights$100,0001n/a
Economic Policy Institute$100,00040%
Jobs to Move America$75,00030%
Coalition of Black Trade Unionists$52,00022%
No on 2117 Committee$50,0001n/a
Amalgamated Transit Union$46,47910%
New Jersey State AFL-CIO COPE$45,00024%
Labor Council for Latin American Advancement$32,50015%
One Fair Wage Inc$25,0001n/a
Show all 19 grantees
All grantees of Amalgamated Transit Union by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Development Now for Chicago$500,0001n/a
Coalition to Protect Workers Rights$100,0001n/a
Economic Policy Institute$100,00040%
Jobs to Move America$75,00030%
Coalition of Black Trade Unionists$52,00022%
No on 2117 Committee$50,0001n/a
Amalgamated Transit Union$46,47910%
New Jersey State AFL-CIO COPE$45,00024%
Labor Council for Latin American Advancement$32,50015%
One Fair Wage Inc$25,0001n/a
Cadet Air Corps Museum$25,0001n/a
Connect Maricopa$20,0001n/a
A Philip Randolph Institute$20,00013%
The Gwinnett Fund Inc$20,0001n/a
Atu Jerry Fund Inc$11,0811n/a
Riders Alliance Fund Inc$10,00010%
Grow Smart Rhode Island$10,0001n/a
International Transportation Learning Center$7,5001n/a
Community Labor United Inc$6,00010%

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($280k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Amalgamated Transit Union supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEconomic Policy Institute: $100,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetJobs to Move America: $75,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCoalition of Black Trade Unionists: $52,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetAmalgamated Transit Union: $46,479 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew Jersey State AFL-CIO COPE: $45,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetLabor Council for Latin American Advancement: $32,500 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetA Philip Randolph Institute: $20,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetRiders Alliance Fund Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCommunity Labor United Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio ClcDC22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc · International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers · United Steel Paper and Forestry Rubber Manufacturing Energy Allied · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · United Food and Commercial Workers International Union · Tides Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Amalgamated Transit Union

How much does Amalgamated Transit Union give?
Amalgamated Transit Union reported 18 itemized grants totaling $800,015, out of $872,337 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 8 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
What does Amalgamated Transit Union fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (38%), Civil Rights (17%), Employment (12%).
Who are Amalgamated Transit Union's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Development Now for Chicago ($500k), Coalition to Protect Workers Rights ($100k), Economic Policy Institute ($100k).
Does Amalgamated Transit Union fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Amalgamated Transit Union?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, United Steel Paper and Forestry Rubber Manufacturing Energy Allied.
Where is Amalgamated Transit Union based?
Amalgamated Transit Union is based in MD.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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