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American Federation of Teachers Educational Foundation

The AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (the foundation) was formed in august 1978 to carry on, conduct, and sponsor study and research in educational and related fields, with the objective, among others, of improving and reconstructing the educational system; to disseminate the results of such study and research; and…

$542k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$72k
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 2025.

Education$2.5MMembership Benefit$1.5MEmployment$1.4MCrime & Legal$60kArts & Culture$20k
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k19 grants · $464k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $72k
$30,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UFT$72,000
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS LOCAL 801$30,000
BALDWINSVILLE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION$30,000
AMERICAN FED OF TEACHERS 2623$30,000
SYRACUSE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION INC$30,000
UNITED LIVERPOOL FACULTY ASSOCIATION$30,000
WATERTOWN EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$30,000
NORTH SYRACUSE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$30,000
OCM BOCES FEDERATION OF TEACHRES$30,000
CHITTENANGO TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION$30,000
AFT ST LOUIS$25,000
CRANSTON TEACHERS' ALLIANCE L01704$25,000
CINCINNATI FED OF TEACHERS$25,000
PINELLAS CLASSROOM TEACHERS ASSOC$25,000
HELENA EDUCATION ASSOCATION$24,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNITED TEACHERS OF LOWELL LOCAL 495: $40k → 8%MINNEAPOLIS FEDERATION OF TEACHERS EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANTS: $50k → 11%EDUCTAION MINNESOTA: $50k → 14%MERGED MISSOULA CLASSIFIED EMPLOYEES ORG: $50k → 9%AFT PA: $50k → 7%PITTSBURGH FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: $147k → 11%UNITED EDUCATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $75k → 10%BOCES EDUCATORS OF EASTERN SUFFOLK: $50k → 7%WHITE PLAINS TEACHERS' ASSOC: $50k → 9%FORT EDWARD TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $45k → 11%COPENHAGEN TEACHERS' ASSOC: $39k → 14%ROME TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $350k → 16%UFT: $72k → 17%HOUSTON FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: $100k → 16%ALBUQUERQUE TEACHERS FEDERATION: $40k → 14%WASHINGTON TEACHERS UNION LOCAL 6: $70k → 14%BREVARD FED OF TEACHERS: $50k → 10%UNITED TEACHERS OF DADE: $81k → 15%FLORIDA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $50k → 19%OREGON SCHOOL EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION: $81k → 14%CORY-RAWSON EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $36k → 9%OHIO FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: $150k → 15%CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION: $50k → 14%PEORIA FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: $93k → 14%JEFFERSON FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: $135k → 15%PITTSBURGH FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: $118k → 11%ROME TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $175k → 16%UNITED FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: $50k → 17%TEXAS AFT 8041: $50k → 10%EDINBURG AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: $50k → 27%FEDERAL INDIAN SERVICES EMPLOYEES (FISE): $50k → 14%ALBERT SHANKER INSTITUTE: $50k → 14%PAWTUCKET TEACHERS ALLIANCE: $100k → 14%OHIO FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: $101k → 15%CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION: $40k → 14%PEORIA FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: $78k → 14%JEFFERSON FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: $50k → 15%ROME TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $135k → 16%UNITED FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: $50k → 17%TEXAS AFT: $135k → 10%LA JOYA FED OF TEACHERS: $40k → 27%PAWTUCKET TEACHERS ALLIANCE: $100k → 14%OHIO FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: $90k → 15%ROME TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $100k → 16%UNITED FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: $40k → 17%TEXAS AFT: $115k → 10%PAWTUCKET TEACHERS ALLIANCE: $100k → 14%TEXAS AFT: $96k → 10%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

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MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
MO
MD
NM
DC
LA
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.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 12 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
57

Total granted

$2.8M
$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+4%

Still filing today

100%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $486k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

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EmploymentMembership BenefitEducationOther
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

  • AF
    AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS
    4× · 2017–2023 · $395k · revenue +26%
  • OF
    OHIO FEDERATION OF TEACHERS
    3× · 2020–2022 · $341k · revenue +18%
  • JF
    Jefferson Federation of Teachers AFT 1559
    3× · 2017–2021 · $218k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • PT
    PAWTUCKET TEACHERS ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
  • HF
    HOUSTON FEDERATION OF TEACHERS
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue -23%
  • FA
    FLORIDA AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL UNIVERSITY CHAPTER OF THE UNITED
    one grant, 2024 · $90k
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
American Federation of Teachers

Organize and support public school teachers

Employment
2
American Federation of Teachers

The organization is a democratic structure that improves the professional, econimic and personal lives of the members and their families, while strengthens the organizations workplace and furthers the cause of social justice through the…

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3
American Federation of Teachers

Teachers association

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4
American Federation of Teachers Oceansid

Teachers collective bargaining

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5
American Federation of Teachers 6297 Local Uic Graduate Org Ift-Aft

To serve as the bargaining agent for all graduate employees at the university of illinois-chicago and to create a culture of labor organizing among those graduate employees.

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6
American Federation of Teachers Illinois State Federation

Improve the status of teachers, educational workers and other workers in the state of illinois.

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7
American Federation of Teachers Graduate Employees Organization

Member representation in collective bargaining and related matters.

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8
California Federation of Teachers Disaster Relief Fund
Membership Benefit
9
American Federation of Teachers Cuesta College Federation Local 4909

Collective Bargaining Representation

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10
American Federation of Teachers

Represent over 450 teachers in collective bargaining agreements

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11
American Federation of Teachers

We are a School Union that Represents that represents public school employees

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12
California Teachers Association-Ssfcta South San Francisco Classroom Teachers

Labor union

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Federation of Teachers Local No 1274; the most unlike its peers is Ojai Federation of Teachers. 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

70 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 70 of the 87 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/70
Grantees still filing
35/70
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS LOCAL 2961: $760,000 · OtherAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS LOCAL 2961AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: $395,154 · OtherAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERSOHIO FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: $340,634 · OtherOHIO FEDERATION OF TEACHERSPITTSBURGH FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: $264,819 · OtherJefferson Federation of Teachers AFT 1559: $218,430 · OtherAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS-PAWTUCKET: $200,000 · Other+72 more: $2,970,467 · Other+72 moreFLORIDA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $65,000 · EmploymentEDUCATION MINNESOTA: $50,000 · EmploymentEdinburg American Federation of Teachers: $50,000 · EmploymentUNITED TEACHERS OF LOWELL LOCAL 495: $40,000 · EmploymentMcAllen American Federation of Teachers: $25,000 · EmploymentAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: $25,000 · EmploymentAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: $10,000 · EmploymentMASSENA FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: $25,000 · Membership BenefitAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS dba - West Genesee Teachers' Association: $22,000 · Education
Other$5,149,504Employment$265,000Membership Benefit$25,000Education$22,000

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 budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS LOCAL 2961: $760,000 over 4y, 90% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: $395,154 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetOHIO FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: $340,634 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetPITTSBURGH FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: $264,819 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetJefferson Federation of Teachers AFT 1559: $218,430 over 3y, 10% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS-PAWTUCKET: $200,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS 0780: $171,422 over 2y, 12% of budgetUNITED FEDERATION OF TEACHERS LOCAL 2: $140,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSTON FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: $100,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCHICAGO TEACHERS UNION FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetUNITED TEACHERS OF DADE: $81,383 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUnited Educators of San Francisco: $75,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetUNITED FEDERATION OF TEACHERS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $72,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWASHINGTON TEACHERS UNION LOCAL #6: $70,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFLORIDA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $65,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPINELLAS CLASSROOM TEACHERS ASSOCIATION INC: $60,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetCINCINNATI FEDERATION OF TEACHERS INC: $53,375 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetEDUCATION MINNESOTA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS 3037 2 BOCES II TEACHERS ASSOC: $50,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetTHE ALBERT SHANKER INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetEdinburg American Federation of Teachers: $50,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetAFT PENNSYLVANIA: $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS WHITE PLAINS LOCAL 3119: $50,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetBREVARD FEDERATION OF TEACHERS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS 4524 NATL COUNCIL-BUREAU OF INDIAN: $50,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetALBUQUERQUE TEACHERS FEDERATION: $40,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS NO 4632: $40,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetUNITED TEACHERS OF LOWELL LOCAL 495: $40,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetRI FEDERATION OF TEACHERS - AFT: $35,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTEACHERS AFL-CIO LOCAL UNION 933 NEW HAVEN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: $35,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetLEON CLASSROOM TEACHERS ASSOCIATION INC: $35,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetCHICAGO TEACHERS UNION: $32,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS LOCAL 1019 LAWRENCE: $30,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS 2623 ESM: $30,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetUNITED LIVERPOOL FACULTY ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetAmerican Federation of Teachers-OCM BOCES: $30,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS 2881 AFT: $30,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHER BALDWINSVILLE TEACHERS ASSOCIAT: $30,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetYONKERS FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: $30,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSYRACUSE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS CHAMPAIGN CHAPTER LOCAL 1925: $30,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS LOCAL 4001 Natchitoches Federation of Teachers and School Employees: $28,000 over 1y, 68% of budgetMcAllen American Federation of Teachers: $25,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetUNITED TEACHERS LOS ANGELES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: $25,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCranston Teachers' Alliance: $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBOSTON TEACHERS UNION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% 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.

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…New York State United…Aft Disaster Relief F…
National Education Association of the United StatesDC24.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Education Association of the United States · New York State United Teachers · Aft Disaster Relief 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 Teachers Educational Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Federation of Teachers Educational Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    13get 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 · 0–5%
    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 87 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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