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American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees

The american federation of state, county and municipal employees (afscme)is an international labor organization representing workers in the public service and health care sectors.

$13M
Granted FY2024still arriving
135
Grants FY2024still arriving
24
States reached
$4.0M
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 2024.

Public Benefit$20MCommunity Improvement$19MCivil Rights$12MEmployment$8.1MHuman Services$3.7MMembership Benefit$3.0MEnvironment$895kEducation$864kOther$0
02FY2024 · 135 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $79k
  • $10k–50k60 grants · $1.1M
  • $50k–250k52 grants · $5.1M
  • $250k+11 grants · $7.8M
$35,000
Median grant
24
States reached
$394M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
For Our Future Action Fund$4,000,000
America Votes$900,000
Development Now For Chicago$550,000
ProgressNow$400,000
AFL-CIO Secretary Treasurer$388,000
NAACP$280,000
Organizing Empowerment Project Inc$250,000
One APIA Nevada$250,000
PA Alliance Action$250,000
Citizens Not Politicians$250,000
Strategic Victory Fund$250,000
Make The Road Action Inc$235,000
Center For American Progress$225,000
Black Men Vote Civic Action Fund$225,000
Democracy Alliance$220,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $310k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Rebuilding Broken Places CDC: $25k → 18%Living United for Change in Arizona: $65k → 11%Georgia Coalition for the Peoples Agenda: $75k → 13%Miriam's Kitchen: $10k → 14%Georgia Coalition for the Peoples Agenda: $50k → 13%Instituto Lab: $25k → 11%ACCE Action: $50k → 14%Institute for Asian Pacific American Leadership: $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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
NH
WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IA
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
CO
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
TN
NC
DC
OK
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$57M · 111 repeat orgs$14M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

111 repeat relationships: 59 still active in FY2024, 52 since wound down; 71 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

111
139

Total granted

$57M
$8.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+10%

Still filing today

81%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.0M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsEducationPublic BenefitArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesOther
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

  • FO
    FOR OUR FUTURE ACTION FUND
    7× · 2017–2024 · $17M · revenue +86% · 26% of their budget
  • WA
    WORKING AMERICA
    6× · 2017–2024 · $4.4M · revenue +187%
  • PN
    PROGRESS NOW INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +693%

Funded once

  • AW
    AMERICA WORKS USAgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $500k · revenue +661%
  • TF
    THE FILM FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $500k · revenue +4% · 25% of their budget
  • SL
    STATE LEADERSHIP PROJECTgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue +86%
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
Washington State Labor Council Afl-Cio

To protect and strengthen the rights and conditions of working people and their families.

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2
People's Independent Commission

Supports Measure to Remove Lawmakers Power to Set Their Own Pay

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3
The Campaign Legal Center Inc

The nonpartisan campaign legal center advances democracy through law at the federal, state and local levels, fighting for every american's rights to responsive government and a fair opportunity to participate in and affect the democratic…

Crime & Legal
4
Afl-Cio Union Lawyers Alliance

Afl-cio union lawyers alliance was established to better the conditions of working men and women and their families by enhancing the quality of legal representation that is available to the afl-cio and the national and international unions…

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5
Council for National Policy

To provide information about public policy and national policy alternatives to leaders in business, government, religion, and academia.

Public Benefit
6
American Workers for Progress

American workers for progress works to ensure that leaders at every level are focused on reducing barriers to job growth and addressing economic challenges to guarantee a better future for all americans.

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7
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Iowa

The foundation works to defend and promote the constitution of the united states, focusing especially on the first, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, and 14th amendments. the foundation also works to defend and promote the constitution of the…

Civil Rights
8
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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9
American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona

The american civil liberties union of arizona is the state's premier guardian of liberty working through the arizona legislature and communities statewide to defend and preserve individual rights and freedoms guaranteed to all by the…

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10
American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Orgs

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

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11
Cincinnati Afl-Cio Labor Council

The mission of the afl-cio 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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12
Commission On Presidential Debates

Organize general election presidential and vice-presidential debates

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Organizing Empowerment Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is Heartland Research Inc. 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

241 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. 241 of the 327 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
47
Early backer (in before they grew)
225/241
Grantees still filing
117/241
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOR OUR FUTURE ACTION FUND: $16,800,000 · OtherFOR OUR FUTURE ACTION FUNDWORKING AMERICA: $4,445,900 · OtherWORKING AMERICASTRATEGIC VICTORY FUND: $3,500,000 · OtherSTRATEGIC VICTORY FUNDAMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS: $2,955,400 · OtherAMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONSAmerica Votes: $2,396,999 · Other+119 more: $21,119,738 · Other+119 morePROGRESS NOW INC: $2,200,000 · Civil RightsPROGRESS NOW INCCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS: $1,075,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR AMERI…A BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER INC: $900,000 · Civil RightsA BETTER WISCONS…STATE INNOVATION EXCHANGE: $625,000 · Civil RightsSTATE INNOVATION…SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST: $562,500 · Civil RightsSCHOOLS AND COMM…ORGANIZING EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC: $350,000 · Civil Rights+37 more: $4,366,705 · Civil Rights+37 moreNational Public Pension Coalition: $1,130,000 · Public BenefitNATIONAL ACTION NETWORK INC: $545,000 · Public BenefitSTATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT: $500,000 · Public BenefitCAMPAIGN FOR ACCOUNTABILITY INC: $290,000 · Public BenefitFISCAL POLICY INSTITUTE INC: $280,000 · Public BenefitCONGRESSIONAL PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS CENTER: $200,000 · Public BenefitNational Coalition on Black Civic Partic: $165,000 · Public BenefitNew Leaders Council: $155,000 · Public Benefit+5 more: $405,000 · Public BenefitAmerica Votes: $900,000 · Community ImprovementPOWERSWITCH ACTION: $750,000 · Community ImprovementDEVELOPMENT NOW FOR CHICAGO: $550,000 · Community ImprovementUNITE HERE EDUCATION AND SUPPORT FUND: $150,000 · Community Improvement+2 more: $112,500 · Community ImprovementGOOD JOBS FIRST: $370,000 · EducationPROGRESSNOW COLORADO: $170,000 · EducationMOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $100,000 · EducationPEGGY BROWNING FUND: $90,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $80,000 · EducationAMERICAN CONSTITUTION SOCIETY FOR LAW & POLICY: $80,000 · EducationTHE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE: $60,000 · EducationCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND INC: $50,000 · Education+1 more: $25,000 · EducationTHE FILM FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 · Arts & CultureCAPITAL & MAIN: $180,000 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICAN PROSPECT INC: $116,500 · Arts & CultureRepairers of the Breach: $400,000 · ReligionSAMUEL DEWITT PROCTOR CONFERENCE INC: $290,000 · Religion
Other$51,218,037Civil Rights$10,079,205Public Benefit$3,670,000Community Improvement$2,462,500Education$1,025,000Arts & Culture$796,500Religion$690,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFOR OUR FUTURE ACTION FUND: $16,800,000 over 7y, 26% of budgetWORKING AMERICA: $4,445,900 over 6y, 6.7% of budgetSTRATEGIC VICTORY FUND: $3,500,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS: $2,955,400 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetPROGRESS NOW INC: $2,200,000 over 7y, 20% of budgetBALLOT INITIATIVE STRATEGY CENTER INC: $1,330,000 over 8y, 13% of budgetNational Public Pension Coalition: $1,130,000 over 8y, 20% of budgetCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS: $1,075,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetAmerica Votes: $900,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetA BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER INC: $900,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetBBT INC: $850,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetCITIZENS FOR TAX JUSTICE: $800,000 over 8y, 98% of budgetPROGRESSIVE CAUCUS ACTION FUND: $750,000 over 6y, 18% of budgetPOWERSWITCH ACTION: $750,000 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetEPI ACTION: $750,000 over 5y, 98% of budgetSTATE INNOVATION EXCHANGE: $625,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetSCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST: $562,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetJobs with Justice Education Fund: $550,000 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetDEVELOPMENT NOW FOR CHICAGO: $550,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL ACTION NETWORK INC: $545,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetTHE FILM FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetSTATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT: $500,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE: $500,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetSIXTEEN THIRTY FUND: $470,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFLORIDIANS FOR TAX FAIRNESS: $450,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetOhio Progressive Collaborative: $408,750 over 4y, 18% of budgetRepairers of the Breach: $400,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetGOOD JOBS FIRST: $370,000 over 8y, 9.4% of budgetTHE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $365,000 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetORGANIZING EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC: $350,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetFair Elections Center: $335,000 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC: $301,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetSIX ACTION: $300,000 over 5y, 21% of budgetCAMPAIGN FOR ACCOUNTABILITY INC: $290,000 over 4y, 9.0% of budgetSAMUEL DEWITT PROCTOR CONFERENCE INC: $290,000 over 4y, 24% of budgetFISCAL POLICY INSTITUTE INC: $280,000 over 8y, 7.5% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE: $280,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetVOTO LATINO INC: $275,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetProject Keystone: $275,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetADRC ACTION: $260,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetCitizens Not Politicians: $250,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPA ALLIANCE ACTION: $250,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetONE APIA NEVADA: $250,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetOPPORTUNITY FOR ALL COALITION: $250,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMAKE THE ROAD ACTION INC: $235,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBLACK MEN VOTE CIVIC ACTION FUND: $225,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetMICHIGAN STATE AFL-CIO: $200,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetNATIONAL EMPLOYMENT LAW PROJECT: $200,000 over 8y, 0.5% 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.

  • Who funds FOR OUR FUTURE ACTION FUND ↗
  • Who funds WORKING AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds STRATEGIC VICTORY FUND ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS ↗
  • Who funds PROGRESS NOW INC ↗
  • Who funds BALLOT INITIATIVE STRATEGY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds National Public Pension Coalition ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ↗
  • Who funds America Votes ↗
  • Who funds A BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER INC ↗
  • Who funds BBT INC ↗
  • Who funds CITIZENS FOR TAX JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS ACTION FUND ↗
  • Who funds POWERSWITCH ACTION ↗
  • Who funds EPI ACTION ↗
  • Who funds STATE INNOVATION EXCHANGE ↗
  • Who funds SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST ↗
  • Who funds Jobs with Justice Education Fund ↗
  • Who funds DEVELOPMENT NOW FOR CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICA WORKS USA ↗
  • Who funds THE FILM FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds STATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds The Good Land Committee Inc ↗
  • Who funds SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDIANS FOR TAX FAIRNESS ↗
  • Who funds Ohio Progressive Collaborative ↗
  • Who funds Repairers of the Breach ↗
  • Who funds GOOD JOBS FIRST ↗
  • Who funds THE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC ↗
  • Who funds ORGANIZING EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds Fair Elections Center ↗

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

National Education As…Sixteen Thirty FundCommunications Worker…Open Society Action F…American Federation o…America VotesWay to Win Action Fun…Tides AdvocacyState Engagement FundAll Hands on Deck Net…United Food and Comme…North Fund
National Education Association of the United StatesDC90.4× affinity50 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Education Association of the United States · Sixteen Thirty Fund · Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc · Open Society Action Fund Inc · American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations · America Votes · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · Tides Advocacy · State Engagement Fund · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · United Food and Commercial Workers International Union · North Fund

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 State County and Municipal Employees 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. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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 327 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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The unnamed billions
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home