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Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc

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

$8.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
52
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of COMMUNICATIONS WORKERS OF AMERICA AFL-CIO CLC’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.

02FY2025 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 52 grants below total $1,364,628 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $8,221,169 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $6,856,541 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $62k
  • $10k–50k37 grants · $666k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $386k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$15,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$588M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE$250,000
AFA DISASTER RELIEF FUND$136,000
LOCAL PROGRESS POLICY ACTION$75,000
FIGHT FOR DEMOCRACY$75,000
JOBS TO MOVE AMERICA$50,250
ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE$50,000
ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN LABOR ALLIANCE AFL-CIO TOTAL$40,328
MICHIGAN AFL-CIO$40,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER$37,000
INSTITUTE ON TAXATION AND ECONOMIC POLICY$25,000
MAP USA$25,000
TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT$25,000
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF GOVT EMPLOYEES$25,000
NATIONAL ACTION NETWORK$25,000
518 C STREET NE INC$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $545k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NORTH SHORE WORKERS COMMUNITY FUND: $10k → 10%CASA IN ACTION: $10k → 11%REBUILDING BROKEN PLACES COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $15k → 18%CASA IN ACTION: $10k → 11%TIDES CENTER: $35k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $25k → 10%CITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK: $20k → 14%CITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK: $15k → 14%CITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK: $15k → 14%CITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK: $10k → 14%ACCE ACTION: $20k → 14%CLIMATE JOBS NY INC: $25k → 17%LABOR PROJECT FOR WORKING FAMILIES: $10k → 14%CWA DISASTER RELIEF FUND: $250k → 14%CWA DISASTER RELIEF FUND: $50k → 14%INSTITUTE FOR ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN LEADERSHIP: $25k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
MS
AL
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.5M · 84 repeat orgs$4.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

84 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 59 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

84
127

Total granted

$8.5M
$3.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+9%

Still filing today

82%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $699k 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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Civil RightsPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementEducationHuman ServicesEmploymentOther

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

  • NAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC
    3× · 2017–2024 · $411k · revenue +128%
  • AF
    Americans for Financial Reform
    2× · 2019–2023 · $300k · revenue +19%
  • CP
    CONGRESSIONAL PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS CENTER
    4× · 2017–2021 · $300k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • DN
    DEVELOPMENT NOW FOR CHICAGO
    one grant, 2024 · $375k · revenue 0%
  • U2
    UNION 2020
    one grant, 2021 · $273k
  • AF
    Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund
    one grant, 2022 · $120k · revenue +23%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Washington State Labor Council Afl-Cio

To protect and strengthen the rights and conditions of working people and their families.

2
Afl-Cio Union Lawyers Alliance

Afl-cio union lawyers alliance was established to better the conditions of working men and women and their families by enhancing the quality of legal representation that is available to the afl-cio and the national and international unions…

3
Cincinnati Afl-Cio Labor Council

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.

4
Laborers International Union of State of Mi

Collective bargaining and representation

5
American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Orgs

To organize all workers for the economic, moral and social advancement of their condition and status.

6
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
7
United States Federation for Worker Cooperation

To build a thriving ecosystem for worker-owned and controlled businesses - and their cooperative leaders - to power movements for racial justice and economic democracy.

Employment
8
American Workers for Progress

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.

9
Virginia Afl-Cio

The Virginia AFL-CIO monitors all legislation affecting the working people of Virginia. To keep the state's labor standards on a progressive track for all working people, we work to win the fight against passage of laws that would have a…

Employment
10
American Federation of Labor

The mission of the nd afl-cio is to improve the lives of working families - to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our state and nation.

11
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Iowa

The foundation works to defend and promote the constitution of the united states, focusing especially on the first, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, and 14th amendments. the foundation also works to defend and promote the constitution of the…

Civil Rights
12
LaborLab

LaborLab is a nonprofit watchdog dedicated to safeguarding workers rights to organize, win strong contracts, and build lasting collective power. Through strategic research, educational resources, and corporate accountability, we empower…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is People for the American Way and the most unlike its peers is Association of Flight Attendants - Disaster Relief Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAffordable Housing Developm…Women & Girls Leadership De…Environmental Conservation …Community FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyMilitary Veterans SupportYouth Sports ProgramsAffordable Housing Construc…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Lgbtq+ Community SupportChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Immigrant Worker SupportPregnancy Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%8%<5yr14%11%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%11%<5yr14%14%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%14%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%6/228
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,337

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

190 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 190 of the 240 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
55
Early backer (in before they grew)
182/190
Grantees still filing
109/190
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

New Direction NJ — $687,000 · OtherNew Direction NJPROGRESSIVE CAUCUS ACTION FUND — $600,000 · OtherPROGRESSIVE CAUCUS ACTION FUNDAmericans for Financial Reform — $300,000 · OtherUNION 2020 — $272,500 · Other+124 more — $5,479,721 · Other+124 moreNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC — $410,850 · Civil RightsNAACP EMPOWERM…NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE — $250,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL ASSOC…LOCAL PROGRESS POLICY ACTION — $150,000 · Civil RightsLOCAL PROGRESS…CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC — $120,000 · Civil RightsCONGRESSIONAL …TEXAS JUSTICE AND EDUCATION FUND — $120,000 · Civil RightsTEXAS JUSTICE …PRIDE AT WORK AFL-CIO — $100,000 · Civil RightsPRIDE AT WORK …ORGANIZE ACTION — $75,000 · Civil Rights+16 more — $374,080 · Civil Rights+16 moreCONGRESSIONAL PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS CENTER — $300,000 · Public BenefitCONGRESSIO…Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund — $120,000 · Public BenefitAmericans …CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC — $101,000 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR…One Voice — $100,000 · Public BenefitOne VoiceCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ACTION FUND — $100,000 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR…OHIO VOICE — $75,000 · Public BenefitOHIO VOICEPROGRESSIVETHOUGHTMATTERS INC — $65,000 · Public BenefitPROGRESSIV…DEMOS A NETWORK FOR IDEAS AND ACTION LTD — $60,000 · Public BenefitINSTITUTE ON TAXATION AND ECONOMIC POLICY — $55,000 · Public BenefitCOMMON DEFENSE CIVIC ENGAGEMENT INC — $45,000 · Public BenefitFIGHT FOR THE FUTURE EDUCATION FUND — $40,000 · Public Benefit+4 more — $93,500 · Public Benefit+4 moreDEVELOPMENT NOW FOR CHICAGO — $375,000 · Community ImprovementAmerica Votes — $65,200 · Community ImprovementKENTUCKY CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TABLE INC — $65,000 · Community ImprovementPEOPLE'S ACTION — $56,000 · Community ImprovementROOSEVELT FORWARD INC — $50,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $50,000 · Community ImprovementNEW JERSEY WORKING FAMILIES ALLIANCE CORP — $35,000 · Community ImprovementPOWERSWITCH ACTION — $35,000 · Community Improvement+5 more — $97,500 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNICATIONS WORKERS OF AMERICA DISASTER RELIEF FUND — $300,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER — $60,000 · Human ServicesCITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK INC — $60,000 · Human ServicesPUENTE HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENT — $50,000 · Human ServicesCLIMATE JOBS NY INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesINSTITUTE FOR ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN LEADERSHIP AND ADVANCEMENT — $25,000 · Human ServicesCASA IN ACTION INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesAlliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Action — $20,000 · Human Services+2 more — $25,000 · Human ServicesJOBS TO MOVE AMERICA — $276,250 · EmploymentJobs with Justice Education Fund — $134,500 · EmploymentMICHIGAN AFL-CIO FOUNDATION — $66,100 · EmploymentAMERICAN FEDERATION OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES — $25,000 · Employment+4 more — $49,800 · EmploymentECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE — $225,000 · Social SciencePOLICY MATTERS OHIO — $178,000 · Social ScienceCINCINNATI UNION COOPERATIVE INITIATIVE — $100,995 · Social Science
Other$7,339,221Civil Rights$1,599,930Public Benefit$1,154,500Community Improvement$828,700Human Services$585,000Employment$551,650Social Science$503,995

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNew Direction NJ — $687,000 over 4y, 83% of budgetPROGRESSIVE CAUCUS ACTION FUND — $600,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC — $410,850 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetDEVELOPMENT NOW FOR CHICAGO — $375,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAmericans for Financial Reform — $300,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS CENTER — $300,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetCOMMUNICATIONS WORKERS OF AMERICA DISASTER RELIEF FUND — $300,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetJOBS TO MOVE AMERICA — $276,250 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetTEXAS AFL-CIO — $236,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE — $225,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTHE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC — $215,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetAssociation of Flight Attendants - Disaster Relief Fund — $187,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetNATIONAL EMPLOYMENT LAW PROJECT — $185,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetPOLICY MATTERS OHIO — $178,000 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS — $175,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLOCAL PROGRESS POLICY ACTION — $150,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetSIXTEEN THIRTY FUND — $145,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA — $140,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetJobs with Justice Education Fund — $134,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetCOALITION OF BLACK TRADE UNIONISTS — $121,540 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetAmericans for Financial Reform Education Fund — $120,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC — $120,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTEXAS JUSTICE AND EDUCATION FUND — $120,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetCOLORADO AFL-CIO — $112,161 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetCLIMATE JOBS NATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER INC — $110,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC — $101,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCINCINNATI UNION COOPERATIVE INITIATIVE — $100,995 over 2y, 32% of budgetOne Voice — $100,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetPRIDE AT WORK AFL-CIO — $100,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetTHE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE — $100,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ACTION FUND — $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCOALITION FOR WORKER POWER — $100,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetTEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT — $100,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN LABOR ALLIANCE AFL -CIO — $90,328 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS INSTITUTE INC — $87,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FAMILY VOICES INC — $85,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetMaine AFL-CIO — $85,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION FUND INC — $75,094 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetORGANIZE ACTION — $75,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetOHIO VOICE — $75,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetA PHILIP RANDOLPH INSTITUTE — $73,900 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetLOCAL PROGRESS POLICY INSTITUTE — $70,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMICHIGAN AFL-CIO FOUNDATION — $66,100 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetAmerica Votes — $65,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKENTUCKY CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TABLE INC — $65,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK INC — $60,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetDEMOS A NETWORK FOR IDEAS AND ACTION LTD — $60,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

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

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 Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 110%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 8%
  • New Jersey Citizen Action37% of income from government
  • Casa Inc8% of income from government
  • Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc8% of income from government
  • North Shore Worker's Community Fund Inc3% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Nurses Association0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 240 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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