How much does Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc give?

Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc reported 52 itemized grants totaling $1,364,628, out of $8,221,169 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 58 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (31%), Public Benefit (17%), Employment (15%).

Who are Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: New Direction NJ ($687k), Progressive Caucus Action Fund ($600k), NAACP Empowerment Programs Inc ($411k).

Does Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Where is Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc based?

Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc is based in DC.

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Washington, D.C. · Public charity

Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc

Exempt labor organization under internal revenue code section 501(c)(5).

$8.2M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 52
Itemized grants FY2025: 58
Organizations funded FY2024: 50%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $1.4M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $15,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $250,000
Organizations funded a year: 28 to 58; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 14
Total assets, FY2025: $588M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 60% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Civil RightsPublic BenefitEducationCommunity ImprovementEmploymentHuman 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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	52	$1.4M	52%
FY2024	58	$2.0M	50%
FY2023	48	$1.7M	42%
FY2022	36	$1.1M	42%
FY2021	39	$1.3M	44%
FY2020	28	$878k	54%
FY2019	38	$1.4M	53%
FY2018	45	$1.5M	60%

98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Civil Rights$4.0MPublic Benefit$2.2MEmployment$1.9MCommunity Improvement$1.4MSocial Science$519kPublic Safety & Disaster$497kMembership Benefit$386kEnvironment$365kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
New Direction NJ	$687,000	4	83%
Progressive Caucus Action Fund	$600,000	5	19%
NAACP Empowerment Programs Inc	$410,850	3	1%
Development Now for Chicago	$375,000	1	0%
Communications Workers of America Disaster Relief Fund	$300,000	2	19%
Americans for Financial Reform	$300,000	2	20%
Congressional Progressive Caucus Center	$300,000	4	5%
Jobs to Move America	$276,250	4	3%
Union 2020	$272,500	1	n/a
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People	$250,000	1	n/a

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All grantees of Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
New Direction NJ	$687,000	4	83%
Progressive Caucus Action Fund	$600,000	5	19%
NAACP Empowerment Programs Inc	$410,850	3	1%
Development Now for Chicago	$375,000	1	0%
Communications Workers of America Disaster Relief Fund	$300,000	2	19%
Americans for Financial Reform	$300,000	2	20%
Congressional Progressive Caucus Center	$300,000	4	5%
Jobs to Move America	$276,250	4	3%
Union 2020	$272,500	1	n/a
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People	$250,000	1	n/a
Texas Afl-Cio	$236,000	7	2%
Federal Contract Call Center Workers Solidarity Fund	$232,000	2	n/a
Economic Policy Institute	$225,000	5	1%
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Inc	$215,000	2	6%
Association of Flight Attendants - Disaster Relief Fund	$187,000	3	16%
National Employment Law Project	$185,000	5	1%
Policy Matters Ohio	$178,000	7	3%
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations	$175,000	4	0%
Local Progress Policy Action	$150,000	2	2%
United Mine Workers of America	$140,000	3	1%
Jobs with Justice Education Fund	$134,500	7	1%
Coalition of Black Trade Unionists	$121,540	6	5%
Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund	$120,000	1	4%
Texas Justice and Education Fund	$120,000	3	24%
Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Inc	$120,000	4	0%
Colorado Afl-Cio	$112,161	5	4%
Climate Jobs National Resource Center Inc	$110,000	2	1%
Center for Popular Democracy Inc	$101,000	2	0%
Cincinnati Union Cooperative Initiative	$100,995	2	32%
Center for American Progress Action Fund	$100,000	2	1%
Texas Organizing Project	$100,000	2	5%
The Roosevelt Institute	$100,000	5	0%
One Voice	$100,000	1	3%
Pride at Work Afl-Cio	$100,000	6	10%
Coalition to Protect Riders and Drivers sponsored by the CA Labor Federation AFL-CIO	$100,000	1	n/a
Coalition for Worker Power	$100,000	1	100%
Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance AFL -Cio	$90,328	6	5%
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Inc	$87,500	3	0%
Maine AFL-CIO	$85,000	5	3%
American Family Voices Inc	$85,000	2	14%
Planned Parenthood Action Fund Inc	$75,094	1	0%
Fight for Democracy	$75,000	1	n/a
Organize Action	$75,000	1	1%
Ohio Voice	$75,000	3	1%
A Philip Randolph Institute	$73,900	5	4%
Democracy Alliance	$70,000	1	n/a
Local Progress Policy Institute	$70,000	2	1%
Michigan Afl-Cio Foundation	$66,100	3	4%
America Votes	$65,200	6	0%
Kentucky Civic Engagement Table Inc	$65,000	1	4%
Progressivethoughtmatters Inc	$65,000	4	n/a
Demos a Network for Ideas and Action Ltd	$60,000	2	0%
Texas Future Project	$60,000	2	n/a
Citizen Action of New York Inc	$60,000	4	3%
Coalition to Protect Workers Rights	$60,000	2	n/a
People's Action	$56,000	1	3%
New York State Nurses Association	$55,061	4	0%
Collective Future	$55,000	2	n/a
Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy	$55,000	4	1%
Peggy Browning Fund	$52,000	3	2%
Tides Advocacy	$50,000	1	0%
Puente Human Rights Movement	$50,000	1	3%
Adrc Action	$50,000	1	18%
Working Texans for Paid Sick Time	$50,000	1	n/a
New York Communities For Change Inc	$50,000	2	1%
Community Partners	$50,000	1	0%
American Federation of Labor Ohio Afl-Cio	$50,000	1	1%
Roosevelt Forward Inc	$50,000	1	6%
Common Defense Civic Engagement Inc	$45,000	4	2%
Innovation Ohio Education Fund	$45,000	4	2%
Move Texas Action Fund	$45,000	2	2%
World Youth Foundation Inc	$44,300	2	n/a
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation	$41,571	1	0%
American Association of Airport Executives Foundation Inc	$41,500	2	1%
Coalition of Labor Union Women	$40,075	4	6%
Fight for the Future Education Fund	$40,000	1	6%
Center for Popular Democracy Action Fund Inc	$40,000	2	1%
Committee to Protect Ca Kids Co Olsen Hagel	$40,000	1	n/a
Repairers of the Breach	$40,000	1	1%
United Farm Workers of America	$38,500	2	0%
Progressohio org	$37,500	3	29%
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Cente	$37,000	1	n/a
The Daniels Group LLC	$36,000	2	n/a
New Jersey Working Families Alliance Corp	$35,000	2	5%
Workers Defense Action Fund	$35,000	2	5%
Democracy Initiative Education Fund	$35,000	2	1%
Powerswitch Action	$35,000	2	0%
Frederick N Smith	$32,500	3	n/a
ACCE Institute	$31,716	1	1%
Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc	$30,000	3	0%
Institute for Public Affairs	$30,000	2	1%
Union Veterans Council	$30,000	2	6%
Michigan Democratic State Central Committee	$30,000	1	n/a
Capital & Main	$30,000	2	0%
Texas Justice Fund	$30,000	2	8%
People for the American Way	$30,000	1	0%
Alliance for Global Justice Corp	$29,000	3	0%
International Labor Rights Forum	$28,500	3	1%
New Jersey State AFL-CIO COPE	$27,500	1	5%
Los Angeles County Federation of Labor Afl-Cio	$27,500	2	1%
Details Consulting LLC	$27,500	1	n/a
New Jersey State Afl-Cio	$27,500	1	2%
Bma Media Group	$25,500	3	n/a
Institute for Asian Pacific American Leadership and Advancement	$25,000	1	5%
Missouri Win	$25,000	1	3%
State Innovation Exchange	$25,000	1	1%
Creative Visions Foundation	$25,000	1	0%
518 C Street Ne Inc	$25,000	1	n/a
Fair Shot Texas	$25,000	1	3%
Map USA	$25,000	1	n/a
National Action Network Inc	$25,000	1	n/a
Texas Future	$25,000	1	n/a
Votevets Action Fund Inc	$25,000	1	n/a
Congressional Black Caucus Political Edu Cation and Leadership Institute	$25,000	1	1%
American Federation of Government Employees	$25,000	1	n/a
The Wright Way Foundation	$25,000	1	n/a
Wright Way Foundation Inc	$25,000	1	n/a
Fission Strategy LLC	$25,000	1	n/a
The Ohio Organizing Campaign	$25,000	1	10%
Climate Jobs Ny Inc	$25,000	1	3%
Michigan State Afl-Cio	$25,000	1	1%
Democracy Initiative	$25,000	1	14%
New Jersey Citizen Action	$25,000	2	2%
Advance North Carolina Inc	$25,000	1	15%
Labor Council for Latin American Advancement	$24,000	2	1%
National Consumers League Inc	$23,500	2	0%
American Association of Airport Executives Inc	$23,500	2	0%
Our Revolution	$23,100	2	1%
Maine People's Alliance	$22,500	2	1%
West Virginia Afl-Cio Inc	$21,600	2	1%
Equality Federation Institute	$21,130	1	1%
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People	$21,100	2	n/a
Iowa Federation of Labor AFL-CIO	$20,000	1	2%
Southwest Blueprint	$20,000	1	n/a
4 Petes Sake Als Foundation	$20,000	2	n/a
Afa Solidarity Fund	$20,000	1	n/a
Casa in Action Inc	$20,000	2	0%
Methodist Federation for Social Action	$20,000	1	5%
Showing Up for Racial Justice Education Fund Inc	$20,000	1	n/a
Commonwealth Alliance Action Fund	$20,000	1	2%
United for Respect Education Fund	$20,000	1	0%
Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Action	$20,000	1	2%
Coworker Solidarity Fund	$20,000	1	8%
Pennsylvania United	$20,000	1	0%
Thousand Currents	$18,000	1	0%
American Federation of Labor	$18,000	1	n/a
Labor Institute for Training Inc	$16,945	1	n/a
Virginia Goldman	$15,176	1	n/a
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations	$15,000	1	0%
Great Lakes and St Lawrence Cities Initiative	$15,000	1	1%
Seiu Colorado State Council	$15,000	1	8%
Jobs With Justice Education Fund	$15,000	1	n/a
Rutgers the State University	$15,000	1	n/a
Adelante Strategies Inc	$15,000	1	n/a
Workers United	$15,000	1	0%
Selma Bridge Crossing	$15,000	1	n/a
Rebuilding Broken Places CDC	$15,000	1	3%
Missouri Jobs With Justice	$14,000	1	2%
Indiana State Afl-Cio	$13,975	1	1%
9-11 Memorial Garden of Reflection	$12,500	1	2%
Kimberly Olsen	$12,500	1	n/a
Northwest Alliance for Alternative Media&Education	$12,000	1	3%
Bread & Roses Missouri	$11,000	1	11%
Citizen Action Illinois	$10,850	2	1%
Jewish Labor Committee	$10,800	1	4%
Clydes of Gallery Place	$10,429	1	n/a
Protect Our Schools Ky	$10,000	1	11%
Missouri Jobs With Justice Voter Action	$10,000	1	5%
Casa Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Innovation Ohio	$10,000	1	1%
South Florida Lclaa Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
North Shore Worker's Community Fund Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Massachusetts Nurses Association	$10,000	1	0%
American Jobs Alliance Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
The Newsguild-Cwa Pittsburgh Striker Fund	$10,000	1	2%
National Vote At Home Institute	$10,000	1	1%
Lmj Productionsmedia	$10,000	1	n/a
Family Values Work a Multi-State Consortium	$10,000	1	0%
Kentucky State Afl-Cio	$10,000	1	2%
Lead Ohio	$10,000	1	3%
MoveOnorg Civic Action	$10,000	1	0%
Moving NJ Together (NJ)	$10,000	1	3%
Nc State American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Org	$10,000	1	1%
New Jersey Policy Perspective	$10,000	1	1%
Georgetown University	$10,000	1	0%
App-Based Workers United DBA Rideshare Drivers United	$10,000	1	23%
Takeitback Org-Advocacy	$10,000	1	4%
Make the Road New York	$10,000	1	0%
New York Public Interest Research Group Fund Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Retail Wholesale & Department Store Union Council of Alabama Rwds	$10,000	1	0%
Aero Club Foundation of Washington	$10,000	1	56%
The American Federation of Labor	$10,000	1	1%
State Democracy Action	$10,000	1	1%
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy	$10,000	1	0%
Greenfaith Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Public Knowledge	$10,000	1	0%
Protect Utah Workers	$10,000	1	n/a
Transformative Justice Coalition	$10,000	1	0%
Working Families Organization Inc	$10,000	1	0%
All Hands on Deck Network Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Equality Project	$10,000	1	n/a
Public Accountability Initiative Inc	$10,000	1	3%
Coalition of American Red Cross Unions	$9,540	1	n/a
New York Statewide Senior Action Council Inc	$8,889	1	n/a
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People	$8,000	1	n/a
Mijente Support Committee	$8,000	1	0%
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc	$7,766	1	0%
Action Center on Race and the Economy	$7,500	1	6%
Center for Health Progress	$7,500	1	n/a
Equality Michigan	$7,500	1	1%
Common Cause Education Fund	$7,500	1	0%
Advantage Communication Consultant	$7,500	1	n/a
Common Cause	$7,500	1	0%
San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council AFL-CIO	$7,500	1	0%
Union Theological Seminary	$7,500	1	0%
Institute of Noetic Sciences	$7,157	1	0%
Northern Virginia CLC AFL-CIO	$7,000	1	n/a
Workers Defense League Inc	$6,500	1	3%
A Philip Randolph Institute Detroit Downriver	$6,500	1	n/a
Bmiu Institute for Labor Studies	$6,000	1	n/a
Coalition for Economic Justice Inc	$6,000	1	3%
The Utility Reform Network	$6,000	1	0%
Special Olympics Inc	$6,000	1	0%
Union Sportsmen's Alliance	$5,875	1	0%
A Philip Randolph Institute	$5,200	1	n/a

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($214k), not named here.

Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 167 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 167.

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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.

American Federation of State County and Municipal EmployeesDC87.1× affinity43 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees · American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations · Sixteen Thirty Fund · Open Society Action Fund Inc · Int Union United Auto National Community Action Program · United Food and Commercial Workers International Union · International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Unite Here · Tides Advocacy · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · Tides 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.

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About Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc

How much does Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc give?: Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc reported 52 itemized grants totaling $1,364,628, out of $8,221,169 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 58 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (31%), Public Benefit (17%), Employment (15%).
Who are Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: New Direction NJ ($687k), Progressive Caucus Action Fund ($600k), NAACP Empowerment Programs Inc ($411k).
Does Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees, American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, Sixteen Thirty Fund.
Where is Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc based?: Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc is based in DC.