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American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees Council 31
To represent members forcefully and effectively in negotiations with management and to conduct internal union affairs according to democratic standards.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $205,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $348,694 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $143,694 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 · FY2024
- $10k–50k6 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ILLINOIS AFL-CIO | $70,000 |
| CENTER FOR TAX & BUDGET ACCOUNTABILITY | $50,000 |
| WE ARE ONE ILLINOIS | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $15,000 |
| CITIZEN ACTION ILLINOIS | $15,000 |
| ILLINOIS ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR WORKERS ASSISTANCE COMMITTEE | $10,000 |
| ARISE CHICAGO | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 76% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +61% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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 and Budget Accountability5× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue +86%
- CACitizen Action Illinois5× · 2020–2024 · $115k · revenue +32%
- CFChicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative5× · 2020–2024 · $64k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- IIIllinois Institute of Technologyone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +13%
- UHUNITE HEREgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +27%
- SHSUN-TIMES HOLDINGS 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.
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.
Strengthen United Way movement in Illinois
To promote job growth and communicate important issues to the public through information campaigns.
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.
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.
Research and recommendations on tax and spending issues
Support state and federally chartered credit unions in illinois by providing education, advocacy and compliance services allowing them to prosper in the financial marketplace.
To organize all workers for the econimic, moral and social advancement of their condition and status.
To ensure that low-wage workers have access to quality jobs and are empowered to uphold and improve workplace standards.
Public education on current public policy issues
Advocate for tort reform in Illinois by communicating with public officials and staff to influence legislation and administrative action designed to create a more equitable and balanced judicial system in Illinois.
The objectives of the Association shall be to: uphold the Constitution of the United States of America and the State of Illinois; secure and protect the rights of those injured in their persons or civil rights; defend trial by jury and the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Illinois Economic Policy Institute and the most unlike its peers is Afscme Fallen Heroes Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 12 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 and Budget Accountability ↗
- Who funds Citizen Action Illinois ↗
- Who funds Chicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ARISE CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Illinois Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds UNITE HERE ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS LABOR HISTORY SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds AFSCME FALLEN HEROES FUND ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees Council 31 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.
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.
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