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Amalgamated Transit Union

The object of the international union shall be to organize local unions.

$872k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0188% 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
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 18 grants below total $800,015, the rows itemized in this filing. The $872,337 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $72,322 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $215k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$20,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$249M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DEVELOPMENT NOW FOR CHICAGO$500,000
NO ON 2117$50,000
ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE$25,000
CADET AIR CORPS MUSEUM$25,000
ONE FAIR WAGE ACTION INC$25,000
CBTU$25,000
ATU INT'L WOMEN'S CAUCUS$24,348
Individual grant recipient$20,000
THE GWINNETT FUND$20,000
CONNECT MARICOPA$20,000
ATU JERRY FUND INC$11,081
THE RICK SMITH SHOW LLC$10,000
GROW SMART RHODE ISLAND$10,000
NY STATE ATU LEGISLATIVE CONFERENCE BOARD$9,135
INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORTATION LEARNING CENTER$7,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CONNECT MARICOPA: $20k → 11%NEW ENGLAND JOINT CONFERENCE: $7k → 11%MA NOT FOR SALE: $100k → 16%RICK SMITH SHOW: $10k → 8%JOBS TO MOVE AMERICA: $25k → 14%NY STATE ATU LEGISLATIVE CONFERENCE BOARD: $9k → 11%ONE FAIR WAGE ACTION INC: $25k → 17%ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE: $25k → 14%THE GWINNETT FUND: $20k → 9%KEEP COLORADO MOVING: $20k → 12%ATU INT'L WOMEN'S CAUCUS: $24k → 17%DEVELOPMENT NOW FOR CHICAGO: $500k → 14%NEW JERSEY STATE AFL-CIO COPE: $25k → 11%CADET AIR CORPS MUSEUM: $25k → 9%INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORTATION LEARNING CENTER: $8k → 8%FEARLESS DANCE EMPIRE: $5k → 19%UNIONIZE AMAZON NORTHERN KENTUCKY: $10k → 15%COMMUNITY LABOR UNITED: $6k → 16%RICK SMITH SHOW: $10k → 8%JOBS TO MOVE AMERICA: $25k → 14%RIDERS ALLIANCE: $10k → 17%ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE: $25k → 14%NEW JERSEY STATE AFL-CIO COPE: $20k → 11%ATU BLACK CAUCUS: $46k → 8%THE RICK SMITH SHOW LLC: $10k → 8%JOBS TO MOVE AMERICA: $25k → 14%ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE: $25k → 14%ATU JERRY FUND INC: $11k → 8%ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE: $25k → 14%AFL-CIO SECRETARY-TREASURER: $25k → 14%A PHILIP RANDOLPH INSTITUTE: $20k → 14%LABOR COUNCIL FOR LATIN AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT (LCLAA): $8k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
DC
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

21%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$302k · 5 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +114% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
10

Total granted

$302k
$394k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+114%
+21%

Still filing today

80%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $740k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Civil RightsArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationSocial ScienceEmploymentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • EP
    ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $100k · revenue +114%
  • JT
    JOBS TO MOVE AMERICA
    3× · 2022–2024 · $75k · revenue +20%
  • NJ
    New Jersey State AFL-CIO COPE
    2× · 2022–2023 · $45k · revenue +203%

Funded once

  • CT
    COALITION TO PROTECT WORKERS RIGHTS
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • CF
    COMMITTEE FOR A BETTER SACRAMENTO
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • VY
    VOTE YES FOR WROKERS RIGHTS
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Laborers International Union of State of Mi

Collective bargaining and representation

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2
Laborers International Union of North America - Local 1076

The local is a nonprofit organization established to represent its members in wage and fringe benefits matters in the construction industry. the local's primary areas of jurisdiction are oakland and livingston counties.

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3
Laborers' International Union of North America Laborers' Local #43

Promote and protect the interests of the members of the local

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4
Transport Workers Union of America

None

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5
International Union of Operating Engineers Local 825ABCDRRH

The work of the union, as the representative of its members, is to provide for the continuous employment of labor, to bring about stable conditions in the industry, and to establish necessary procedures for resolutions of disputes between…

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6
Laborers' International Union of North America

To improve working conditions and living standards of members through collective bargaining, education, training, and employee benefits.

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7
Laborers International Union of 341 Hcl

Union hall devoted to the betterment of members compensation and working conditions, to secure recognition of workers rights to engage in collective bargaining, and to promote the development and maintenance of on-the-job safety practices…

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8
Washington State Labor Council Afl-Cio

To protect and strengthen the rights and conditions of working people and their families.

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9
International Union of Operating Engineers Local 564

Local labor union was established to promote & protect the interests of its membership with regard to social & working conditions encourages a higher standard of skill and employment. the local union is involved in collecive bargaining and…

Employment
10
Laborers International Union of North America Local 152

Labor union

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11
Eastern Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters

Labor union maintaining and improving the benefit and working conditions of members engaged in the carpentry trade.

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12
Laborers International Union of North America 1322 Hcl

Membership organization representing approximately 570 union members for the purpose of collective bargaining.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is One Fair Wage Inc; the most unlike its peers is Atu Jerry Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 30 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
11/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COALITION TO PROTECT WORKERS RIGHTS: $100,000 · OtherCOALITION TO PROTECT WORKERS RIGHTSCOALITION OF BLACK TRADE UNIONISTS: $52,000 · OtherCOALITION OF BLACK TRADE UNIONISTSCOMMITTEE FOR A BETTER SACRAMENTO: $50,000 · OtherCOMMITTEE FOR A BETTER SACRAMENTOVOTE YES FOR WROKERS RIGHTS: $50,000 · OtherVOTE YES FOR WROKERS RIGHTSNo on 2117 Committee: $50,000 · OtherNo on 2117 CommitteeMOVING ORANGE COUNTY FORWARD: $50,000 · OtherMOVING ORANGE COUNTY FORWARDAMALGAMATED TRANSIT UNION: $46,479 · OtherAMALGAMATED TRANSIT UNIONNew Jersey State AFL-CIO COPE: $45,000 · OtherNew Jersey State AFL-CIO COPEIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherFLORIDA AFL-CIO: $25,000 · OtherATU INT'L WOMEN'S CAUCUS: $24,348 · Other+9 more: $122,167 · Other+9 moreDEVELOPMENT NOW FOR CHICAGO: $500,000 · Community ImprovementDEVELOPMENT NOW FOR CHICAGOECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE: $100,000 · Social ScienceJOBS TO MOVE AMERICA: $75,000 · EmploymentLABOR COUNCIL FOR LATIN AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT: $32,500 · Civil RightsONE FAIR WAGE INC: $25,000 · Civil RightsRIDERS ALLIANCE FUND INC: $10,000 · Civil RightsCOMMUNITY LABOR UNITED INC: $6,000 · Civil RightsCadet Air Corps Museum: $25,000 · Arts & CultureGROW SMART RHODE ISLAND: $10,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL TRANSPORTATION LEARNING CENTER: $7,500 · Education
Other$644,994Community Improvement$500,000Social Science$100,000Employment$75,000Civil Rights$73,500Arts & Culture$35,000Education$7,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 Worker…International Brother…United Steel Paper an…Amalgamated Charitabl…United Food and Comme…Tides FoundationFidelity Investments …
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Amalgamated Transit Union funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Amalgamated Transit Union. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 17%
  • International Transportation Learning Center: 100% of income from government
  • Amalgamated Transit Union: 17% of income from government
  • Community Labor United Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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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