A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 81% of AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 130 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 130 grants below total $28,248,923 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $33,433,481 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,184,558 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k8 grants · $64k
$10k–50k44 grants · $1.0M
$50k–250k57 grants · $5.5M
$250k+21 grants · $22M

$60,000

Median grant

States reached

$159M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
WORKING AMERICA	$8,555,000
AFL-CIO TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE	$1,700,000
STRATEGIC ORGANIZING CENTER	$1,487,502
NEIGHBORHOOD FUNDERS GROUP	$1,250,000
NORTH CAROLINA STATE AFL-CIO	$1,154,590
MINNESOTA AFL-CIO	$694,823
PROGRESSIVE WORKERS COALITION	$675,000
ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS	$625,000
NEW JERSEY STATE AFL-CIO	$605,000
NATIONAL LABOR COLLEGE	$600,000
GEORGIA STATE AFL-CIO	$595,449
WISCONSIN STATE AFL-CIO	$462,000
MICHIGAN STATE AFL-CIO	$461,539
ARIZONA AFL-CIO	$432,885
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR COUNTY LABOR COUNCIL	$385,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$157M · 157 repeat orgs$6.1M to everyone else

157 repeat relationships — 101 still active in FY2025, 56 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

157

Total granted

$157M

$2.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%

+18%

Still filing today

92%

60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.2M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Civil RightsEmploymentPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementEducationHuman ServicesOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

WA
WORKING AMERICA
9× · 2017–2025 · $62M · revenue +187% · 49% of their budget
AT
AFL-CIO TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE
4× · 2022–2025 · $5.9M · revenue +76% · 100% of their budget
AF
ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS
9× · 2017–2025 · $5.8M · revenue +4%

Funded once

BI
BBT INC
one grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue -100%
AT
AMERICAN TENT
one grant, 2020 · $129k
IA
ILLINOIS AFL-CIO
one grant, 2019 · $100k

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations

The organization is a federation of labor unions. its mission is to improve the lives of working families - to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our nation.

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American Federation of Labor & Alameda Labor Council

To protect, maintain, and advance the interests of all working people in its territory; to secure legislation in the interest of the working people; to promote the formation of a committee on political education; to promote recognition and…

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

Promote and protect the interests of the members of the local

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Afl-Cio Snohomish & Island County Labor Council

Member, affiliate, and community education for worker's issues - union and non-union

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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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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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Laborers International Union of State of Mi

Collective bargaining and representation

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American Federation of Labor & Bldg & Construction Trades Council

To create a better working environment for the construction industry and its members.

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Aft Massachusetts

State labor organization

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American Federation of Labor & Cong of Industrial Orgs Nyc Bldg % Const

Liason for organized labor in the new york city area.

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The Laborers Pacific Southwest Regional Organizing Coalition

to organize workers in the laborers international union of north America, afl-cio pacific southwest region through a coordinated program to maintain and improve employment opportunities for affiliated local union members and to recruit new…

Employment

Laborers Afl-Cio Local 1035

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

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Labor Council Afl-Cio and the most unlike its peers is Skinner Leadership Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 66 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%3/278

the rest of the field

13%

1,600/12,723

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 226 of the 266 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

223/226

Grantees still filing

148/226

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$133,939,241Civil Rights$14,034,029Social Science$8,198,750Employment$3,301,002Community Improvement$1,260,833Environment$1,063,150Human Services$976,200

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

American Federation of State County and Municipal EmployeesDC79.7× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees · Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc · United Food and Commercial Workers International Union · Int Union United Auto National Community Action Program · National Education Association of the United States · International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers · Unite Here · National Nurses United · Sixteen Thirty Fund · United Steel Paper and Forestry Rubber Manufacturing Energy Allied · International Brotherhood of Teamsters · Grand Lodge International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

21get no government money at all

13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations?

Find your warmest path to American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines