· Public charity
Massachusetts State Labor Council Afl-Cio
To empower and support workers in their effort to promote justice, educate the public about the value of unions, and improve the economic stability and security of working families and communities throughout the commonwealth of massachusetts.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 96% of MASSACHUSETTS STATE LABOR COUNCIL 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 3 grants below total $70,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $129,050 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $59,050 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 · FY2023
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MA NOT FOR SALE | $50,000 |
| MASS AFL-CIO WORKING PEOPLES FUND | $14,000 |
| RESIST INC | $6,000 |
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 (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 82% 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.
3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- CTCOALITION TO PROTECT WORKERS RIGHTS3× · 2021–2023 · $205k
- RURAISE UP MASSACHUSETTS5× · 2017–2022 · $145k
- MAMASS AFL-CIO WORKING PEOPLES FUND7× · 2017–2023 · $95k
Funded once
- VYVote Yes on Work and Family Mobilityone grant, 2022 · $50k
- PVPIONEER VALLEY CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL2× · 2019–2020 · $30k · revenue 0%
- IAI A T S E LOCAL #11graduated2× · 2020–2021 · $15k · revenue +238%
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.
Labor organization
Labor union
To represent and advocate for its member physicians.
MCOFU is the state recognized collective bargaining representative for all employees of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Corrections Unit 4.
The mission statement of the organizatin includes, but is not limited to, on behalf of its members, collective bargaining, greivance procedures, arbitration, strike benefits, education, and to improve the working conditions of its members.
The Mission Statement of the Organization Includes, but is not limited to, on Behalf of its Members Collective Bargaining, Grievance Procedures, Arbitration, Strike Benefits, Education, and to Improve the Working Conditions of its Members.
State labor organization
The mission statement of the Organization includes, but is not limited to on behalf of its Members Collective Barganing, Grievance procedures, Arbitration, Strike Benefits, Education, and to improve the working conditions of its Members.
Member, affiliate, and community education for worker's issues - union and non-union
Labor organization to organize all paid professional fire fightes within Brookline
To organize all workers for the economic, moral and social advancement of their condition and status.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Boston Mass Labor Council Afl-Cio and the most unlike its peers is Sullivan Family Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 10 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.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Painters and Allied Trades DC #35 Allied Trades District Council #35
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 Massachusetts State Labor Council 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health Inc — 11% of income from government
- Resist Inc — 2% of income from government
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.