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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% 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
02FY2025 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 52 grants below total $1,364,628, the rows itemized in this filing. The $8,221,169 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $6,856,541 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.

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
FIGHT FOR DEMOCRACY$75,000
LOCAL PROGRESS POLICY ACTION$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
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF GOVT EMPLOYEES$25,000
NATIONAL ACTION NETWORK$25,000
MAP USA$25,000
518 C STREET NE INC$25,000
TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT$25,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its 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
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.

Which US states its 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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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
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

  • 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%
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
Washington State Labor Council Afl-Cio

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

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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…

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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.

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4
Laborers International Union of State of Mi

Collective bargaining and representation

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is People for the American Way; 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.
04the grantee network

190 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. 190 of the 240 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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+123 more: $5,469,721 · Other+123 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…TEXAS JUSTICE AND EDUCATION FUND: $120,000 · Civil RightsTEXAS JUSTICE …CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 · Civil RightsCONGRESSIONAL …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…CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ACTION FUND: $100,000 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR…One Voice: $100,000 · Public BenefitOne VoiceOHIO 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 ImprovementCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $50,000 · Community ImprovementROOSEVELT FORWARD INC: $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 ServicesCITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER: $60,000 · Human ServicesPUENTE HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENT: $50,000 · Human ServicesINSTITUTE FOR ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN LEADERSHIP AND ADVANCEMENT: $25,000 · Human ServicesCLIMATE JOBS NY INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesCASA IN ACTION INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesAlliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Action: $20,000 · Human Services+3 more: $35,000 · 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$7,329,221Civil Rights$1,599,930Public Benefit$1,154,500Community Improvement$828,700Human Services$595,000Employment$551,650Social Science$503,995

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetCOMMUNICATIONS WORKERS OF AMERICA DISASTER RELIEF FUND: $300,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetAmericans for Financial Reform: $300,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS CENTER: $300,000 over 4y, 4.6% 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 budgetTEXAS JUSTICE AND EDUCATION FUND: $120,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 over 4y, 0.2% 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 budgetCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ACTION FUND: $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT: $100,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetTHE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE: $100,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetOne Voice: $100,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetPRIDE AT WORK AFL-CIO: $100,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetCOALITION FOR WORKER POWER: $100,000 over 1y, 100% 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 budgetMaine AFL-CIO: $85,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetAMERICAN FAMILY VOICES INC: $85,000 over 2y, 14% 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 budgetDEMOS A NETWORK FOR IDEAS AND ACTION LTD: $60,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK INC: $60,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $60,000 over 2y, 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.

American Federation o…American Federation o…Sixteen Thirty FundOpen Society Action F…Int Union United Auto…United Food and Comme…International Brother…All Hands on Deck Net…Unite HereTides AdvocacyWay to Win Action Fun…Tides Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • New Jersey Citizen Action: 37% of income from government
  • Casa Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
  • North Shore Worker's Community Fund Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Nurses Association: 0% 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, 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.

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 240 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home