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American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations

To organize all workers for the econimic, moral and social advancement of their condition and status.

$85k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Civil Rights$51kScience & Tech$50kHuman Services$47kRecreation & Sports$27kEducation$17kArts & Culture$17kYouth Development$10kSocial Science$10k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $10,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $84,712 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $74,712 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.
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–20, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MISERICORDIA HOME OF MERCY: $10k → 14%UFCW LOCAL #881 CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $7k → 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.
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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$151k · 5 repeat orgs$68k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
7

Total granted

$151k
$68k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+62%

Still filing today

80%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationCivil RightsHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • II
    Illinois Institute of Technology
    5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +13%
  • US
    UNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE
    4× · 2017–2023 · $27k · revenue +6%
  • CA
    Citizen Action Illinois
    3× · 2017–2019 · $26k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • VY
    VOTE YES FOR WORKERS RIGHTS
    one grant, 2022 · $17k
  • JW
    JESSE WHITE FOUNDATION LTDgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +129%
  • IE
    ILLINOIS ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +25%
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
Citizen Action Illinois Education Fund

Public education on current public policy issues

Public Benefit
2
Illinois Business Alliance

The illinois business alliance is a nonprofit, member-driven business league that exists to improve illinois' business climate and promote the common economic interests of its members.

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3
University of Illinois Alumni Association

The mission of the university of illinois alumni association is to enhance and advance the relationship between the university of illinois at urbana-champaign (the university) and all its alumni; to inspire lifelong loyalty and pride among…

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4
Illinois Manufacturers' Association

To strengthen the economic social environmental and governmental conditions for manufacturing and allied enterprises in the state of illinois, resulting in an englarged business base and increased employment.

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5
Citizens Utility Board

To promote the health, welfare and prosperity of all the citizens of illinois by ensuring effective and democratic representation of utility consumers.

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6
Chicago Municipal Employee's Credit Union

To give members the ability to control their financial destiny by providing members with the means to satisfy their needs for financial services in a comfortable family-like environment. in doing so, the credit union strives to maintain…

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7
Change Illinois Action Fund

Change illinois action fund is dedicated to advocating for solutions to the issues that undermine democracy and government efficiency in illinois, including restricted ballot access, uncompetitive elections, decreased citizen…

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8
Illinois Retail Merchants Association

To conduct a commercial, industrial, or trade association for the benefit of persons engaged in retail trade in the state of illinois.

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9
Illinois College

Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…

Education
10
University of Illinois Foundation

The Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, is an independent and separate nonprofit entity from the University of Illinois. Our mission is to encourage and administer private gifts and serve the UI System by working closely with…

Education
11
American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois

Defend freedom of speech, press, assembly, and other rights guaranteed by the us constitution and the constitution of the state of illinois.

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12
A I a Illinois

Empowered by members to champion the profession of architecture.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Equality Illinois; the most unlike its peers is Illinois Institute of Technology. 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

11 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. 11 of the 13 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
10/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ILLINOIS ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS: $31,000 · OtherILLINOIS ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED A…VOTE YES FOR WORKERS RIGHTS: $16,765 · OtherVOTE YES FOR WORKERS RIGHTSST PATRICKS DAY PARADE COMM OF CHICAGO co James Coyne President: $16,500 · OtherST PATRICKS DAY PARADE COMM OF …Illinois Institute of Technology: $50,000 · EducationIllinois Institute of Technol…JESSE WHITE FOUNDATION LTD: $10,000 · EducationJESSE WHITE FOUNDATION LTDCitizen Action Illinois: $26,200 · Civil RightsCitizen Action …Illinois Alliance for Retired Americans: $6,000 · Civil RightsIllinois Allian…UNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE: $26,932 · EnvironmentUNION SPORTSM…THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MACON COUNTY: $10,250 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMU…EQUALITY ILLINOIS: $8,500 · PhilanthropyEQUALITY …MISERICORDIA HOME: $10,000 · Human ServicesUFCW LOCAL 881 CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $7,000 · Human ServicesILLINOIS ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE: $10,000 · Community Improvement
Other$64,265Education$60,000Civil Rights$32,200Environment$26,932Philanthropy$18,750Human Services$17,000Community Improvement$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIllinois Institute of Technology: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE: $26,932 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCitizen Action Illinois: $26,200 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetST PATRICKS DAY PARADE COMM OF CHICAGO co James Coyne President: $16,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MACON COUNTY: $10,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJESSE WHITE FOUNDATION LTD: $10,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetILLINOIS ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMISERICORDIA HOME: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUALITY ILLINOIS: $8,500 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetIllinois Alliance for Retired Americans: $6,000 over 1y, 6.6% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 13 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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