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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.

$245k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$48k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Employment$850kHuman Services$777kPublic Benefit$189kEducation$139kMembership Benefit$130kPublic Safety & Disaster$49kHealth$22kSocial Science$3k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $201,795, the rows itemized in this filing. The $245,172 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $43,377 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.
$22,595
Median grant
8
States reached
$576k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Keep Oklahomas Promise$47,700
Wyoming Coalition for a Healthy Ret$36,000
Keeping the Kansas Promise$26,000
Arizona AFL CIO$22,595
Ohio AFLCIO$22,500
Colorado Coalition for Retirement$20,000
Connecticut Coalition Retirement$15,000
Kentucky Public Pension Coalition$12,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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 Promise: $48k → 16%AFSCME COUNCIL 61: $50k → 10%MI Coalition for Secure Retirement: $50k → 16%KEEPING THE KANSES PROMISE: $50k → 14%OREGON AFSCME: $60k → 14%COLORADO COALITION FOR RETIREMENT SECURITY: $40k → 12%AFSCME IN-KY ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 72: $40k → 16%Ohio AFLCIO: $23k → 15%Alaska AFL CIO: $50k → 22%North Dakota United: $40k → 10%Wyoming Coalition for a Healthy Ret: $36k → 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 OKLAHOMAS PROMISES: $48k → 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 Kansas Promise: $26k → 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%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: $39k → 16%KEEPING THE KANSES PROMISE: $25k → 14%KEEP OKLAHOMA'S PROMISES: $38k → 16%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
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

AK
ME
NH
MT
ND
MI
OR
WY
IA
IN
PA
CT
CO
MO
KY
AZ
KS
OK
LA
TX
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 18 repeat orgs$161k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
8

Total granted

$2.2M
$139k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+1%

Still filing today

72%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
EmploymentEducationPublic BenefitSocial ScienceOther
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

  • 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%
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
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
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organization

To assist in organizing the unorganized workers in mississippi.

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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
Aurora Education Association

Education association

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6
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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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
Nebraska State Afl-Cio

Labor relations

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9
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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10
Aft Massachusetts

State labor organization

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11
American Federation of State County & Municipal Employees

Purpose of organization is unionized for state employees.

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12
Oklahoma State Afl-Cio

Promote labor unions

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oregon Afscme Council 75; the most unlike its peers is Coalition for Secure Retirement-Michigan. 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

21 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. 21 of the 27 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
14/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KEEP OKLAHOMAS PROMISES: $320,223 · OtherKEEP OKLAHOMAS PROMISESCOLORADO COALITION FOR RETIREMENT SECURITY: $238,646 · OtherCOLORADO COALITION FOR RETIREMENT SECURITYKEEPING THE KANSES PROMISE: $225,100 · 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 - AKAZ State Bldg & Construction Trades: $77,066 · OtherAFSCME COUNCIL 962: $70,000 · Other+11 more: $317,310 · Other+11 moreNORTH DAKOTA UNITED: $105,000 · EmploymentNORTH DAKOTA…LOUISIANA AFL - CIO: $92,500 · EmploymentLOUISIANA AF…COALITION FOR SECURE RETIREMENT-MICHIGAN: $60,000 · EmploymentCOALITION FO…EQUALITY STATE POLICY CENTER: $153,027 · Public BenefitKENTUCKY PUBLIC PENSION COALITION INC: $111,456 · EducationCITIZENS WHO SUPPORT MAINE'S PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $40,000 · EducationKeystone Research Center Inc: $3,000 · Social Science
Other$1,795,149Employment$257,500Public Benefit$153,027Education$151,456Social Science$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetKENTUCKY PUBLIC PENSION COALITION INC: $111,456 over 6y, 56% 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 budgetLOUISIANA AFL - CIO: $92,500 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetAZ State Bldg & Construction Trades: $77,066 over 4y, 3.3% 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 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
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.

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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 →

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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 Public Pension Coalition funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Public Pension Coalition. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's 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
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 27 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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