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AMERICAN FEDERATION OF STATE COUNTY AND
To represent members forcefully and effectively in negotiations with management and to conduct internal union affairs according to democratic standards.
$349k
Granted FY2024
8
Grants
1
Communities
$70k
Largest
01What you fund
0174% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Public Benefit$250kCivil Rights$115kEmployment$79kEducation$45kCommunity Improvement$25kArts & Culture$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kOther$180k
02FY2024 · 8 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k6 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $120k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$69M
Total assets
Largest grants
- ILLINOIS AFL-CIO$70,000
- CENTER FOR TAX & BUDGET ACCOUNTABILITY$50,000
- WE ARE ONE ILLINOIS$25,000
- CITIZEN ACTION ILLINOIS$15,000
- UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS$15,000
- CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR WORKERS ASSISTANCE COMMITTEE$10,000
- ILLINOIS ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE$10,000
- ARISE CHICAGO$10,000
02The need
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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:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 12%. 76% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. 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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — 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.
95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$666k · 7 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +105% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
7
5
Total granted
$666k
$38k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+105%
+26%
Still filing today
86%
80%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EmploymentEducationPublic BenefitCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther
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
- CFCENTER FOR TAX & BUDGET ACCOUNTABILITY5× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue +189%
- CACITIZEN ACTION ILLINOIS5× · 2020–2024 · $115k · revenue +4%
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS3× · 2021–2024 · $35k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- IIILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +26%
- UHUNITE HERE EDUCATION & SUPPORT FUNDone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +8%
- SMSUN-TIMES MEDIA LLCone grant, 2021 · $8k
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.
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University of Illinois Alumni
The mission of the university of illinois alumni association is to enhance and advance the relationship between the university of illinois and all of its alumni.
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2
University of Chicago
The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.
Education
3
The Illinois State Historical Society
To provide funding and support services in relation to the research and development of historical information regarding the state of illinois history.
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4
Illinois Manufacturers' Association
To foster and promote vocational, educational, charitable and scientific interests including activities which foster accountability, freedom of choice, incentives for students and teachers, and excellence in pre-employment education, and,…
Education
5
Reform for Illinois
Conducts research on governmental trends, advocates reforms and hosts educational events to promote public participation in government. addresses the role of money in politics, and encourages integrity, accountability, and transparency in…
Civil Rights
6
Illinois State University Foundation
To hold & administer gifts with the primary objective of serving the educational purposes of isu.
Education
7
Illinois Fiscal Policy Council
Public Benefit
8
Illinois Library Association
To improve and develop library service and librarianship throughout the library community by providing education programs and publications.
Education
9
The Art Institute of Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago, a not-for-profit corporation, is both a museum and an institution of higher education that exists to provide appreciation and education in visual fine arts and design.
Education
10
The Chicago Innovation Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Illinois Theatre Association
We promote theatre in Illinois. Our members are students, educators, community & professional theaters, actors & producers all joined together to support the art of theatre.
Arts & Culture
12
United Way of Illinois
Strengthen United Way movement in Illinois
Philanthropy
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Illinois Economic Policy Institute and 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
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Public Benefit$250,000Other$179,582Civil Rights$115,000Employment$79,000Education$45,000Community Improvement$25,000Arts & Culture$5,000Public Safety & Disaster$5,000
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.
- Who funds CENTER FOR TAX & BUDGET ACCOUNTABILITY ↗
- Who funds CITIZEN ACTION ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR WORKERS ASSISTANCE COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ARISE CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds UNITE HERE EDUCATION & SUPPORT FUND ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS LABOR HISTORY SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds AFSCME FALLEN HEROES FUND ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation AMERICAN FEDERATION OF STATE COUNTY AND 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: AFSCME FALLEN HEROES FUND.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 522344511 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on AFSCME FALLEN HEROES FUND, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 14% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to American Federation of State County And?
Find your warmest path to American Federation of State County And through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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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