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National Public Pension Coalition

The goal of the National Public Pension Coalition is to maintain public defined benefit systems as a vital component of retirement security.

$387k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2017–2024.

Employment$850kHuman Services$777kPublic Benefit$189kEducation$139kMembership Benefit$130kPublic Safety & Disaster$49kHealth$22kSocial Science$3k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 9 grants below total $259,320 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $387,034 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $127,714 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $159k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$21,996
Median grant
9
States reached
$660k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Alaska AFL CIO$50,000
MI Coalition for Secure Retirement$50,000
Keep Oklahomas Promise$35,724
North Dakota United$25,000
Arizona AFL CIO$21,996
Wyoming Coalition for a Healthy Ret$21,600
Colorado Coalition for Retirement$20,000
Kentucky Public Pension Coalition$20,000
Connecticut Coalition Retirement$15,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ARIZONA AFL-CIO: $32k → 11%MONTANA FEDERATION OF PUBLIC EMPLOY: $30k → 9%TEXAS AFL-CIO: $50k → 10%KEEP OKLAHOMAS PROMISES: $48k → 16%AFSCME COUNCIL 61: $50k → 10%MI Coalition for Secure Retirement: $50k → 16%KEEPING THE KANSES PROMISE: $50k → 14%MISSOURI NEA: $20k → 10%OREGON AFSCME: $60k → 14%COLORADO COALITION FOR RETIREMENT SECURITY: $40k → 12%AFSCME IN-KY ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 72: $40k → 16%Alaska AFL CIO: $50k → 22%North Dakota United: $40k → 10%Wyoming Coalition for a Healthy Ret: $22k → 10%Equality State Policy Center: $32k → 17%LOUISIANA AFL-CIO: $40k → 19%PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS OF NH: $41k → 7%CITIZENS WHO SUPPORT MAINE'S: $40k → 12%Arizona AFL CIO: $26k → 11%TEXAS AFL-CIO: $50k → 10%KEEP OKLAHOMA'S PROMISES: $39k → 16%Keeping the Kansas Promise: $44k → 14%OREGON AFSCME: $40k → 14%COLORADO COALITION FOR RETIREMENT SECURITY: $35k → 12%Alaska AFL CIO: $33k → 22%North Dakota United: $40k → 10%EQUALITY STATE POLICY CENTER: $27k → 17%PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS OF NH: $39k → 7%ARIZONA AFL-CIO: $23k → 11%TEXAS AFL-CIO: $30k → 10%KEEP OKLAHOMA'S PROMISES: $39k → 16%KEEPING THE KANSES PROMISE: $25k → 14%OREGON AFSCME: $40k → 14%COLORADO COALITION FOR RETIREMENT SECURITY: $35k → 12%Alaska AFL CIO: $25k → 22%North Dakota United: $25k → 10%EQUALITY STATE POLICY CENTER: $25k → 17%PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS OF NH: $39k → 7%Arizona AFL CIO: $22k → 11%KEEP OKLAHOMA'S PROMISES: $39k → 16%KEEPING THE KANSES PROMISE: $25k → 14%COLORADO COALITION FOR RETIREMENT U: $35k → 12%EQUALITY STATE POLICY CENTER: $25k → 17%PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS OF NH: $23k → 7%KEEP OKLAHOMA'S PROMISES: $38k → 16%KEEPING THE KANSES PROMISE: $22k → 14%Keep Oklahomas Promise: $36k → 16%Keep Oklahomas Promises: $29k → 16%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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NH
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MI
OR
WY
IA
IN
PA
CT
CO
MO
KY
AZ
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OK
LA
TX

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.0M · 17 repeat orgs$160k 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 +1% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
8

Total granted

$2.0M
$139k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+1%

Still filing today

76%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EmploymentEducationPublic BenefitSocial ScienceOther

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

  • PF
    PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
    6× · 2017–2022 · $169k · revenue +51%
  • ES
    EQUALITY STATE POLICY CENTER
    7× · 2017–2023 · $153k · revenue +87%
  • OA
    OREGON AFSCME COUNCIL 75
    3× · 2017–2019 · $140k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • CW
    CITIZENS WHO SUPPORT MAINE'S PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue -90%
  • MF
    MONTANA FEDERATION OF PUBLIC EMPLOYEES
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue -8%
  • MN
    MISSOURI NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +8%

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.

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Maine Afl-Cio

To promote and ensure workers' rights

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2
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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3
Aurora Education Association

Education association

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4
New Hampshire Afl-Cio

As a strong statewide voice for all working people, the NH AFL-CIO brings together the unions of New Hampshire into one labor movement that fights for economic and social justice in our workplaces and communities.

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5
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organization

To assist in organizing the unorganized workers in mississippi.

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6
Afl-Cio Snohomish & Island County Labor Council

Member, affiliate, and community education for worker's issues - union and non-union

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7
American Federation of Teachers

The organization is a democratic structure that improves the professional, econimic and personal lives of the members and their families, while strengthens the organizations workplace and furthers the cause of social justice through the…

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8
American Federation of State County & Municipal Employees

Purpose of organization is unionized for state employees.

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9
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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10
Aft Massachusetts

State labor organization

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American Federation of Teachers Aldine Aft 6345

Aldine aft local 6345 is a labor organization representing public education employees in matters related to wages hours and their condition of employment.

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12
Michigan State Afl-Cio

Consistent with our trade union philosophy and tradition of advocating social and economic justice for all, we also see representing the unemployed, under-employed, and low income people as part of our mission. whether organized or yet to…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oregon Afscme Council 75 and the most unlike its peers is Keystone Research Center Inc. 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

20 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. 20 of the 26 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
13/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

KEEP OKLAHOMAS PROMISES — $272,523 · OtherKEEP OKLAHOMAS PROMISESCOLORADO COALITION FOR RETIREMENT SECURITY — $203,646 · OtherCOLORADO COALITION FOR RETIREMENT SECURITYKEEPING THE KANSES PROMISE — $199,100 · OtherKEEPING THE KANSES PROMISEPROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE — $168,968 · OtherPROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS OF NEW HAMPSHIREOREGON AFSCME COUNCIL 75 — $140,000 · OtherOREGON AFSCME COUNCIL 75TEXAS AFL-CIO — $129,800 · OtherTEXAS AFL-CIOAMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR & CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGS - AK — $108,036 · OtherAMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR & CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGS - AKAFSCME COUNCIL 962 — $70,000 · OtherAFSCME COUNCIL #61 — $57,500 · OtherAZ State Bldg & Construction Trades — $54,471 · OtherAZ State American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organization — $54,000 · Other+8 more — $147,310 · Other+8 moreNORTH DAKOTA UNITED — $105,000 · EmploymentNORTH DAKOTA …LOUISIANA AFL - CIO — $92,500 · EmploymentLOUISIANA AFL…COALITION FOR SECURE RETIREMENT-MICHIGAN — $60,000 · EmploymentCOALITION FOR…EQUALITY STATE POLICY CENTER — $153,027 · Public BenefitKENTUCKY PUBLIC PENSION COALITION INC — $99,456 · EducationCITIZENS WHO SUPPORT MAINE'S PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $40,000 · EducationKeystone Research Center Inc — $3,000 · Social Science
Other$1,605,354Employment$257,500Public Benefit$153,027Education$139,456Social Science$3,000

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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE — $168,968 over 6y, 6.2% of budgetEQUALITY STATE POLICY CENTER — $153,027 over 7y, 17% of budgetOREGON AFSCME COUNCIL 75 — $140,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTEXAS AFL-CIO — $129,800 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR & CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGS - AK — $108,036 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetNORTH DAKOTA UNITED — $105,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetKENTUCKY PUBLIC PENSION COALITION INC — $99,456 over 5y, 56% of budgetLOUISIANA AFL - CIO — $92,500 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetAFSCME COUNCIL 962 — $70,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetCOALITION FOR SECURE RETIREMENT-MICHIGAN — $60,000 over 2y, 55% of budgetAFSCME COUNCIL #61 — $57,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetAZ State Bldg & Construction Trades — $54,471 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetAZ State American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organization — $54,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetCITIZENS WHO SUPPORT MAINE'S PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $40,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetMONTANA FEDERATION OF PUBLIC EMPLOYEES — $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetARIZONA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $17,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF STATE COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES DC #72 — $10,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetNEA ALASKA INC — $8,710 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKeystone Research Center Inc — $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

National Education As…American Federation o…
National Education Association of the United StatesDC17.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Education Association of the United States · American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations

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 Public Pension Coalition 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%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to National Public Pension Coalition?

    Find your warmest path to National Public Pension Coalition through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 26 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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