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American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees Council 31 at a glance

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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.

$349k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Public Benefit$283kCivil Rights$252kEmployment$89kEducation$35kCommunity Improvement$25kScience & Tech$10kArts & Culture$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$5k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $205,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $348,694 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $143,694 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $85k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $120k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$69M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
ARISE CHICAGO$10,000
ILLINOIS ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE$10,000
CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR WORKERS ASSISTANCE COMMITTEE$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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 76% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%UNITE HERE EDUCATION & SUPPORT FUND: $10k → 17%AFSCME FALLEN HEROES FUND: $5k → 14%ILLINOIS AFL-CIO: $70k → 11%ILLINOIS LABOR HISTORY SOCIETY: $5k → 14%ILLINOIS AFL-CIO: $62k → 11%CITIZEN ACTION ILLINOIS: $50k → 14%WE ARE ONE ILLINOIS: $25k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $15k → 14%ILLINOIS AFL-CIO: $5k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $10k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $10k → 14%ILLINOIS ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE: $10k → 14%ILLINOIS ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE: $10k → 14%ILLINOIS ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE: $5k → 14%ARISE CHICAGO: $10k → 14%ARISE CHICAGO: $5k → 14%CITIZEN ACTION ILLINOIS: $25k → 14%CITIZEN ACTION ILLINOIS: $15k → 14%CITIZEN ACTION ILLINOIS: $15k → 14%CITIZEN ACTION ILLINOIS: $10k → 14%CENTER FOR TAX & BUDGET ACCOUNTABILITY: $50k → 14%CENTER FOR TAX & BUDGET ACCOUNTABILITY: $50k → 14%CENTER FOR TAX & BUDGET ACCOUNTABILITY: $50k → 14%CENTER FOR TAX & BUDGET ACCOUNTABILITY: $50k → 14%CENTER FOR TAX & BUDGET ACCOUNTABILITY: $50k → 14%CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR WORKERS ASSISTANCE COMMITTEE: $15k → 14%CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR WORKERS ASSISTANCE COMMITTEE: $15k → 14%CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR WORKERS ASSISTANCE COMMITTEE: $12k → 14%CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR WORKERS ASSISTANCE COMMITTEE: $12k → 14%CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR WORKERS ASSISTANCE COMMITTEE: $10k → 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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$666k · 7 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +27% for those 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

+61%
+27%

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.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EmploymentEducationPublic BenefitCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther
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

  • CF
    Center for Tax and Budget Accountability
    5× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue +86%
  • CA
    Citizen Action Illinois
    5× · 2020–2024 · $115k · revenue +32%
  • CF
    Chicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative
    5× · 2020–2024 · $64k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • UH
    UNITE HEREgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +27%
  • II
    Illinois Institute of Technology
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +13%
  • SH
    SUN-TIMES HOLDINGS LLC
    one grant, 2021 · $8k
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
United Way of Illinois

Strengthen United Way movement in Illinois

Philanthropy
2
Illinois Coalition for Jobs Growth and Prosperity

To promote job growth and communicate important issues to the public through information campaigns.

Community Improvement
3
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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4
Illinois Fiscal Policy Council
Public Benefit
5
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.

—
6
Taxpayers' Federation of Illinois

Research and recommendations on tax and spending issues

Community Improvement
7
Illinois Credit Union League

Support state and federally chartered credit unions in illinois by providing education, advocacy and compliance services allowing them to prosper in the financial marketplace.

—
8
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.

—
9
Raise the Floor Alliance

To ensure that low-wage workers have access to quality jobs and are empowered to uphold and improve workplace standards.

Crime & Legal
10
Citizen Action Illinois Education Fund

Public education on current public policy issues

Public Benefit
11
Illinois Coalition for Legal Reform

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.

Community Improvement
12
Illinois Trial Lawyers Association

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Illinois Economic Policy Institute; 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.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 12 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Center for Tax and Budget Accountability: $250,000 · Public BenefitCenter for Tax and Budget AccountabilityILLINOIS AFL-CIO: $162,082 · OtherILLINOIS AFL-CIOUNITE HERE: $10,000 · OtherUNITE HERESUN-TIMES HOLDINGS LLC: $7,500 · OtherCitizen Action Illinois: $115,000 · Civil RightsCitizen Action Ill…Chicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative: $64,000 · EmploymentChicago Fede…ARISE CHICAGO: $15,000 · EmploymentARISE CHICAG…University of Illinois Foundation: $35,000 · EducationIllinois Institute of Technology: $10,000 · EducationILLINOIS ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE: $25,000 · Community ImprovementILLINOIS LABOR HISTORY SOCIETY: $5,000 · Arts & CultureAFSCME FALLEN HEROES FUND: $5,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Public Benefit$250,000Other$179,582Civil Rights$115,000Employment$79,000Education$45,000Community Improvement$25,000Arts & Culture$5,000Public Safety & Disaster$5,000

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 budgetCenter for Tax and Budget Accountability: $250,000 over 5y, 9.2% of budgetCitizen Action Illinois: $115,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetChicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative: $64,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetILLINOIS ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetARISE CHICAGO: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUNITE HERE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIllinois Institute of Technology: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAFSCME FALLEN HEROES FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 14% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees Council 31 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees Council 31. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%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
    2report 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.
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    Find your warmest path to American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees Council 31 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.

    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 12 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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