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American Postal Worker's Union

Organization of labor

$6k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$300
Largest
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$900Recreation & Sports$550Health$306Housing & Shelter$300Human Services$300Animals$300Arts & Culture$250Membership Benefit$150Other$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $1,506, the rows itemized in this filing. The $5,594 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $4,088 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.
$150
Median grant
1
States reached
$726k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
San Antonio Food Bank$300
The State of Texas Kidney Foundation$156
Broken Warrioirs Angels Inc$150
Animal Defense League$150
Soldiers Angels$150
San Antonio Feral Cat Coalition$150
Toys for Tots San Antonio$150
Individual grant recipient$150
The Raul Jimenez Thanksgiving Dinner$150
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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Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $150) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%Family Violence Prevention Services Inc: $150 → 16%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.

33%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1k · 3 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
7

Total granted

$1k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+3%

Still filing today

33%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $906 went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
HealthHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterAnimalsOther
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

  • SA
    SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK
    3× · 2023–2025 · $600 · revenue +25%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    3× · 2023–2025 · $300
  • TR
    The Raul Jimenez Thanksgiving Dinner
    3× · 2023–2025 · $300

Funded once

  • SG
    Silverhorn Golf Club of Texas
    one grant, 2023 · $400
  • FH
    FISHER HOUSE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $300 · revenue +139%
  • ML
    Martin Luther King Celebration
    one grant, 2023 · $250
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
San Antonio Pets Alive Inc

The mission of San Antonio Pets Alive! is to save every adoptable dog and cat in danger of being killed at the City of San Antonio Shelter.

Animals
2
Humane Society of San Antonio (Audit)

To protect and improve the lives of dogs and cats by providing shelter, care, adoption, rescue, spay & neuter programs and community education.

Animals
3
The Humane Society of Austin & Travis County Inc

The austin humane society (ahs) offers comprehensive, humane, life-saving animal services, transforming the lives of animals and those who love them. because we believe homeless animals deserve a chance to thrive in a loving environment,…

Animals
4
Fix West Texas

Fix West Texas mission is to lower the local euthanasia rate dogs and cats put to sleep in our local shelter due to lack of space and to lower intakes number of dogs and cats taken in by the local shelter and local rescues in our West…

Animals
5
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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6
Saving Southern Kitties

Saving southern kitties mission is to save cats and kittens from high kill animal controls, house them in team foster homes, provide quality veterinary care and adopt them into forever homes.

Environment
7
Kitties & Kanines Shelter

Our mission is to provide non-lethal solutions to the homeless, abandoned, and feral animal population of fort smith, arkansas. we will do this through re-unifying animals with their owners, adopting animals to new families, or…

Animals
8
Feeding Texas

To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.

Community Improvement
9
San Antonio Medical Foundation

The mission of the san antonio medical foundation is to improvehealth care, advance biomedical science, and enhance communitywell-being by providing leadership & active stewardship of our landand other assets.

Health
10
Animal Adoption Foundation

Aaf is a no kill shelter for domestic animals that have been abused and abandoned. aaf provides and coordinates adoption, spay/nueter, and educational programs, which aim to reduce and control pet population. aaf maintains temporary…

Animals
11
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
12
San Antonio Metropolitan Ministries Inc

Provides short term shelter, housing and other services for the homeless and those at risk of becoming homeless in bexar county.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Soldiers' Angels; the most unlike its peers is The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation 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

8 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. 8 of the 16 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK: $600 · OtherSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANKSilverhorn Golf Club of Texas: $400 · OtherSilverhorn Golf Club of TexasIndividual grant recipient: $300 · OtherIndividual grant recipientThe Raul Jimenez Thanksgiving Dinner: $300 · OtherThe Raul Jimenez Thanksgiving DinnerMartin Luther King Celebration: $250 · OtherMartin Luther King CelebrationSAN ANTONIO FERAL CAT COALITION: $150 · OtherSAN ANTONIO FERAL CAT COALITIONBROKEN WARRIORS ANGELS INC: $150 · OtherBROKEN WARRIORS ANGELS INCAPWU Maui Area Local #5528: $150 · OtherAPWU Maui Area Local #5528Toys for Tots San Antonio: $150 · OtherToys for Tots San AntonioNCOA Medallion Program: $150 · OtherNCOA Medallion ProgramSTATE OF TEXAS KIDNEY FOUNDATION: $156 · HealthSTATE OF …The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $150 · HealthThe Susan…FISHER HOUSE INC: $300 · Housing & ShelterFISHER HO…SOLDIERS' ANGELS: $150 · Public Safety & DisasterANIMAL DEFENSE LEAGUE OF TEXAS: $150 · AnimalsFAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION SERVICES INC: $150 · Human Services
Other$2,600Health$306Housing & Shelter$300Public Safety & Disaster$150Animals$150Human Services$150

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFISHER HOUSE INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN ANTONIO FERAL CAT COALITION: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOLDIERS' ANGELS: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL DEFENSE LEAGUE OF TEXAS: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION SERVICES INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY11.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Postal Worker's Union funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Postal Worker's Union. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%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 · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to American Postal Worker's Union?

    Find your warmest path to American Postal Worker's Union 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 16 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.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $2k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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