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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $242,486, the rows itemized in this filing. The $366,919 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $124,433 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 $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

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 (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 its 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
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

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against +2% for those 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
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

  • EP
    ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $390k · revenue +261%
  • 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%
  • AM
    AFL-CIO March on Washington
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
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
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harvesters - the Community Food Network; 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

46 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. 46 of the 49 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/46
Grantees still filing
24/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…EMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY: $30,000 · Food & NutritionTHE FOODBANK INC: $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 & NutritionIDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE: $6,000 · Food & NutritionWELD FOOD BANK: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetEMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOODBANK INC: $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 budgetNATIONAL ACTION NETWORK INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOALITION FOR PAPER OPTIONS: $20,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetNORTHWEST COMPASS INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 budgetFLORIDA AFL-CIO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRECONNECTING MCDOWELL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCOALITION OF LABOR UNION WOMEN: $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTRI-STATE FOOD BANK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII EMPLOYEES LIFELINE PROGRAM: $10,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetNEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTATIONERY ENGINEERS LOCAL 670 RWDSU: $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 budgetCHICAGO & MIDWEST REGIONAL JOINT BOARD WORKERS UNITED: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEl-Ada Inc Community Action Partnership: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWELD FOOD BANK: $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
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.

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

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 National Association of Letter Carriers funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Association of Letter Carriers. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
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 49 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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