· Public charity
American Postal Workers Union Afl-Cio
Apwu is responsible for the negotiation and implementation of a collective bargaining contract with the usps on behalf of the members of the union and employees in the bargaining unit.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of AMERICAN POSTAL WORKERS UNION AFL-CIO’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $113,725 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $153,330 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $39,605 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
- Under $10k3 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $94k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NCBCP | $15,000 |
| WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC | $15,000 |
| A PHILIP RANDOLPH INST | $12,600 |
| CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS | $11,000 |
| ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| YES FOR FREEDOM TO VOTE BY MAIL | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL ACTION NETWORK | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL VOTE AT HOME INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,950 |
| CBTU | $5,675 |
| A PHILIP RANDOLPH MIAMI-DADE CHAPTER | $5,500 |
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 (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 78% 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.
6 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
- UMUNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA3× · 2022–2024 · $46k · revenue +11%
- NCNational Coalition on Black Civic Partic3× · 2022–2024 · $35k · revenue +0%
- COCOALITION OF BLACK TRADE UNIONISTS4× · 2021–2024 · $33k · revenue +210%
Funded once
- KDKPWU DISASTER RELIEF FUNDone grant, 2022 · $26k
- APAMERICAN POSTAL WORKERS UNIONone grant, 2023 · $25k · 36% of their budget
- DIDEBS-JONES-DOUGLASS INSTITUTE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $23k · revenue +88%
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.
Apwu is responsible for the negotiation and implementation of a collective bargaining contract with the usps on behalf of the members of the union and employees in the bargaining unit.
Labor Union
To change the lived conditions of black Californians by dismantling systemic and anti-black racism. CBPN fulfills this mission by building and protecting Black Political Power through the development of robust policy campaigns and advocacy…
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.
The congressional black caucus political education leadership institute's mission is to provide political education and training to the next generation of african american leadership.
To provide collective bargaining representation to members.
To promote an defend civil liberties principles.
The council is a federation of approximately 85 affiliated unions. the organizaton engages in a wide range of activities. the activities are designed to improve the lives of working families, to bring economic justice to the workplace, and…
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.
Negotiating Organization
To organize all workers for the economic, moral and social advancement of their condition and status.
The work of the union, as the representative of its members, is to provide for the continuous employment of labor, to bring about stable conditions in the industry, and to establish necessary procedures for resolutions of disputes between…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Postal Workers Union. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 18 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 UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds National Coalition on Black Civic Partic ↗
- Who funds COALITION OF BLACK TRADE UNIONISTS ↗
- Who funds Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund ↗
- Who funds A PHILIP RANDOLPH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN POSTAL WORKERS UNION ↗
- Who funds DEBS-JONES-DOUGLASS INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds CONGRESSIONAL PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS CENTER ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc · United Food and Commercial Workers International Union · United Steel Paper and Forestry Rubber Manufacturing Energy Allied · Tides Foundation · American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations · The Ford Foundation · International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization American Postal Workers Union Afl-Cio 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.