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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.

$153k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
11
Itemized grants FY2024
8
Organizations funded FY2023
25%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$114k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 8
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$181M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations American Postal Workers Union Afl-Cio funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
Public BenefitOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving11$114k55%
FY20238$97k25%
FY20228$116k75%
FY20214$50kn/a
90% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Public Benefit$87kCivil Rights$83kEmployment$59kSocial Science$40kMembership Benefit$31kPublic Safety & Disaster$26kEducation$23kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 13 grantees
All grantees of American Postal Workers Union Afl-Cio by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
United Mine Workers of America$46,10040%
Economic Policy Institute$40,00040%
National Coalition on Black Civic Partic$35,00040%
Coalition of Black Trade Unionists$32,67552%
Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund$32,29531%
A Philip Randolph Institute$26,60032%
American Postal Workers Union$25,165136%
Debs-Jones-Douglass Institute Inc$22,50015%
Working Families Organization Inc$15,00020%
Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Inc$11,00010%
National Action Network Inc$10,00010%
Congressional Progressive Caucus Center$10,00010%
A Philip Randolph Miami-Dade Chapter$5,5001n/a

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($64k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

American Postal Workers Union Afl-Cio supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited Mine Workers of America: $46,100 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetEconomic Policy Institute: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNational Coalition on Black Civic Partic: $35,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCoalition of Black Trade Unionists: $32,675 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetAmericans for Financial Reform Education Fund: $32,295 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetA Philip Randolph Institute: $26,600 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetAmerican Postal Workers Union: $25,165 over 1y, 36% of budgetDebs-Jones-Douglass Institute Inc: $22,500 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetWorking Families Organization Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCongressional Black Caucus Foundation Inc: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Action Network Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCongressional Progressive Caucus Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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.

Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio ClcDC19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About American Postal Workers Union Afl-Cio

How much does American Postal Workers Union Afl-Cio give?
American Postal Workers Union Afl-Cio reported 11 itemized grants totaling $113,725, out of $153,330 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 8 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does American Postal Workers Union Afl-Cio fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (23%), Civil Rights (22%), Employment (16%).
Who are American Postal Workers Union Afl-Cio's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: United Mine Workers of America ($46k), Economic Policy Institute ($40k), National Coalition on Black Civic Partic ($35k).
Does American Postal Workers Union Afl-Cio fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as American Postal Workers Union Afl-Cio?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc, United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, United Steel Paper and Forestry Rubber Manufacturing Energy Allied.
Where is American Postal Workers Union Afl-Cio based?
American Postal Workers Union Afl-Cio is based in DC.

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 18 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 $198k 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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