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National Association of Letter Carriers

Founded in 1889, the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LETTER CARRIERS of the united states of america is a labor organization for city letter carriers who are employed by the united states postal service.

$367k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Public Safety & Disaster$2.2MPublic Benefit$402kSocial Science$390kFood & Nutrition$246kCivil Rights$140kEmployment$129kHealth$69kMembership Benefit$60kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 5 grants below total $242,486 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $366,919 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $124,433 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 $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $224k
$55,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.6B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL VOTE AT HOME INSTITUTE$100,000
MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION$68,517
ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE$55,000
ASSN OF FLIGHT ATTENDANTS - DISASTER RELIEF FUND$10,000
NEW ENGLAND CENTER & HOME FOR VETERANS$8,969
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 (FY21–24, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 56% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EL ADA MOUNTAIN HOME: $6k → 11%HAWAII EMPLOYEES LIFELINE PROGRAM: $10k → 9%ISLAND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $12k → 7%CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION: $6k → 7%LABOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $12k → 14%NORTHWEST COMPASS: $10k → 14%NORTHWEST COMPASS INC: $8k → 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

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ID
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MO
WV
VA
KS
NC
DC
HI
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.2M · 14 repeat orgs$560k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +11% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
32

Total granted

$3.2M
$472k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+2%

Still filing today

93%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $87k 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
Food & NutritionHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCivil RightsPublic BenefitEducationOther

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

  • EP
    ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $390k · revenue +147%
  • UC
    UNION COMMUNITY FUND
    2× · 2018–2023 · $80k · revenue +147%
  • CC
    CLARK COUNTY FOOD BANK
    4× · 2021–2024 · $55k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • AP
    AMERICAN POSTAL WORKERS UNION AFL-CIO
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +6%
  • UH
    UNITE HERE
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +2%
  • SI
    SIT IN MOVEMENT INC
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -98%

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
United Food and Commercial Workers International Union

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

Employment
2
United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 27 Afl-Cio

To conduct a local union of persons engaged in the performance of work within its jurisdiction; to organize, unite, and assist persons, without regard to race, creed, color, sex, religion, age, disability, sexual orientation, or national…

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3
Laborers International Union of 341 Hcl

Union hall devoted to the betterment of members compensation and working conditions, to secure recognition of workers rights to engage in collective bargaining, and to promote the development and maintenance of on-the-job safety practices…

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4
Laborers' International Union of North America

To improve working conditions and living standards of members through collective bargaining, education, training, and employee benefits.

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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
United Food & Commercial Workers Union Local 876

Labor union representing food and commercial workers, primarily in southeast michigan.

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7
Laborers International Union of North America - Local 1076

The local is a nonprofit organization established to represent its members in wage and fringe benefits matters in the construction industry. the local's primary areas of jurisdiction are oakland and livingston counties.

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8
International Union of Operating Engineers Local 825ABCDRRH

The work of the union, as the representative of its members, is to provide for the continuous employment of labor, to bring about stable conditions in the industry, and to establish necessary procedures for resolutions of disputes between…

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9
Laborers International Union of State of Mi

Collective bargaining and representation

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10
Laborers International Union of North America 1322 Hcl

Membership organization representing approximately 570 union members for the purpose of collective bargaining.

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11
United Food & Commercial Workers

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

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12
American Federation of Labor Ohio Afl-Cio

To advance middle class and working class values by promoting social and economic justice. we join together over 263,000 union members to make our voice heard in the policy and political arenas. the ohio afl-cio represents 1,787 local…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harvesters - the Community Food Network 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 backsteadyMilitary Veterans SupportFood Banks and PantriesPolicy Research and AdvocacyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Affordable Housing Developm…
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 38 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr18%13%10–20yr18%30%20–35yr16%38%35–55yr15%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%63%5–10yr18%2%10–20yr18%9%20–35yr16%20%35–55yr15%5%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/48
the rest of the field
12%
1,600/12,953

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

46 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. 46 of the 49 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/46
Grantees still filing
24/46
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NALC DISASTER RELIEF FOUNDATION — $2,073,893 · PhilanthropyNALC DISASTER RELIEF FOUNDATIONUNION COMMUNITY FUND — $80,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $20,631 · PhilanthropyNational Vote At Home Coalition — $100,000 · OtherNational Vote At …CLARK COUNTY FOOD BANK — $55,000 · OtherCLARK COUNTY FOOD…AMERICAN POSTAL WORKERS UNION AFL-CIO — $50,000 · OtherAMERICAN POSTAL W…UNITE HERE — $50,000 · OtherUNITE HEREUNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA — $45,000 · OtherUNITED MINE WORKE…CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL UNION COUNCIL — $28,500 · OtherAFL-CIO March on Washington — $25,000 · OtherCOALITION FOR PAPER OPTIONS — $20,000 · OtherNATIONAL ACTION NETWORK INC — $20,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $25,000 · Other+16 more — $157,419 · Other+16 moreECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE — $390,000 · Social ScienceECONOMIC PO…National Vote At Home Institute — $262,000 · Civil RightsNational …SIT IN MOVEMENT INC — $25,000 · Civil RightsSIT IN MO…TAKEITBACK ORG-ADVOCACY — $25,000 · Civil RightsTAKEITBAC…THE FOODBANK INC — $30,000 · Food & NutritionEMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY — $30,000 · Food & NutritionOZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC — $25,200 · Food & NutritionHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK — $24,000 · Food & NutritionCentral Illinois Foodbank Inc — $14,000 · Food & NutritionLOCKPORT FISH FOOD PANTRY — $9,100 · Food & NutritionWELD FOOD BANK — $6,000 · Food & NutritionIDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE — $6,000 · Food & NutritionMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC — $68,517 · HealthCHICAGO VETERANS — $12,195 · HealthNORTHWEST COMPASS INC — $17,500 · Human ServicesISLAND HARVEST LTD — $12,088 · Human ServicesLABOR COMMUNITY SERVICES PROGRAM OF LOS ANGELES — $12,000 · Human ServicesHAWAII EMPLOYEES LIFELINE PROGRAM — $10,000 · Human ServicesEl-Ada Inc Community Action Partnership — $6,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY — $5,550 · Human Services
Philanthropy$2,174,524Other$575,919Social Science$390,000Civil Rights$312,000Food & Nutrition$144,300Health$80,712Human Services$63,138

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNALC DISASTER RELIEF FOUNDATION — $2,073,893 over 6y, 88% of budgetECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE — $390,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetNational Vote At Home Institute — $262,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetNational Vote At Home Coalition — $100,000 over 2y, 40% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC — $68,517 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLARK COUNTY FOOD BANK — $55,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN POSTAL WORKERS UNION AFL-CIO — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITE HERE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA — $45,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FOODBANK INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL UNION COUNCIL — $28,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetOZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC — $25,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTAKEITBACK ORG-ADVOCACY — $25,000 over 1y, 54% of budgetHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK — $24,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR FLINT — $20,631 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCOALITION FOR PAPER OPTIONS — $20,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetNATIONAL ACTION NETWORK INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHWEST COMPASS INC — $17,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Illinois Foodbank Inc — $14,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO VETERANS — $12,195 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetISLAND HARVEST LTD — $12,088 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLABOR COMMUNITY SERVICES PROGRAM OF LOS ANGELES — $12,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSTATIONERY ENGINEERS LOCAL 670 RWDSU — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOALITION OF LABOR UNION WOMEN — $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetHAWAII EMPLOYEES LIFELINE PROGRAM — $10,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetNEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRECONNECTING MCDOWELL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTRI-STATE FOOD BANK — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA AFL-CIO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAFT DISASTER RELIEF FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLOCKPORT FISH FOOD PANTRY — $9,100 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetVIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS — $8,969 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF BOILERMAKERS IRON SHIP BUILDERS — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEl-Ada Inc Community Action Partnership — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO & MIDWEST REGIONAL JOINT BOARD WORKERS UNITED — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWELD FOOD BANK — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY — $5,550 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK OF SIOUXLAND INC — $5,450 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

United Food and Comme…Communications Worker…National Nurses UnitedInternational Union o…American Federation o…Feeding AmericaAmerican Federation o…Tides FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…Charities Aid Foundat…Network for GoodVanguard Charitable E…
United Food and Commercial Workers International UnionDC21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Food and Commercial Workers International Union · Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc · National Nurses United · International Union of Bricklayers & Allied Craftworkers · American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations · Feeding America · American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees · Tides Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 National Association of Letter Carriers 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 66%
  • Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans — 66% of income from government
  • Center for Food Action in New Jersey — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 49 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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