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New York State United Teachers

Through a representative democratic structure, NEW YORK STATE UNITED TEACHERS improves the professional, economic and personal lives of our members and their families, strengthens the institutions in which they work, and furthers the cause of social justice through the trade union movement.

$269k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
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.

Employment$3.0MEducation$1.7MMembership Benefit$923kCivil Rights$38k
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $124k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$8,880
Median grant
2
States reached
$352M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EDUCATION LAW CENTER$100,000
BUFFALO TEACHERS FEDERATION$45,995
SMITHTOWN TEACHERS ASSOCIATION$25,000
COMMACK TEACHERS ASSOCIATION$22,725
SYRACUSE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION$19,250
ALBANY PUBLIC SCHOOLS TA$11,220
AMITYVILLE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION$8,880
HICKSVILLE CONGRESS OF TEACHERS$6,500
FILLIMORE CS FACULTY ASSOCIATION$6,109
CORNING TEACHERS ASSOCIATION$6,056
DEER PARK TEACHERS ASSOCIATION$6,000
SCHOHARIE CS TEACHERS ASSOCIATION$5,672
EAST WILLISTON TEACHERS ASSOCIATION$5,478
02The need
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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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 86% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CLARKSTOWN TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION: $30k → 6%EDGEMONT TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $22k → 9%BUFFALO TEACHERS FEDERATION INC: $80k → 13%UNITED UNIVERSITY PROFESSIONS: $250k → 14%NEWBURGH TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $24k → 14%PROFESSIONAL STAFF CONGRESS: $90k → 17%MASSENA FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: $83k → 18%AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: $20k → 14%EDUCATION LAW CENTER: $100k → 16%CLARKSTOWN TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION: $30k → 6%BUFFALO TEACHERS FEDERATION: $46k → 13%UNITED UNIVERSITY PROFESSIONS: $250k → 14%MONTICELLO TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $30k → 16%UNITED FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: $2.0M → 17%AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: $20k → 14%EDUCATION LAW CENTER: $100k → 16%SYRACUSE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $20k → 14%UNITED UNIVERSITY PROFESSIONS: $100k → 14%UNITED FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: $20k → 17%EDUCATION LAW CENTER: $100k → 16%CARMEL TEACHERS ASSN: $30k → 9%SYRACUSE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $19k → 14%EDUCATION LAW CENTER: $100k → 16%EDUCATION LAW CENTER: $100k → 16%WEST ISLIP TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $20k → 7%WAPPINGERS CONGRESS OF TEACHERS: $24k → 9%NYS ASSOCIATION OF SMALL CITY SCHOOL DISTRICTS TOTAL: $25k → 14%EDUCATION LAW CENTER: $100k → 16%SYRACUSE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $25k → 14%EDUCATION LAW CENTER: $100k → 16%SYRACUSE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $20k → 14%ALBANY PUBLIC SCHOOLS TA: $19k → 14%EDUCATION LAW CENTER: $100k → 16%GREAT NECK TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $25k → 6%ROCHESTER TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $30k → 14%EDUCATION LAW CENTER: $50k → 16%GREAT NECK TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $20k → 6%FACULTY FEDERATION OF ERIE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $26k → 13%ROCHESTER TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $30k → 14%ROCHESTER TEACHERS ASSOCIATION TOTAL: $30k → 14%COMMACK TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $23k → 7%MIDDLE COUNTRY TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $22k → 7%MIDDLE COUNTRY TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $20k → 7%PATCHOGUE MEDFORD CONGRESS OF TEACHERS: $20k → 7%BRENTWOOD TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $30k → 7%SMITHTOWN TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $25k → 7%SMITHTOWN TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $25k → 7%RIVERHEAD CENTRAL FACULTY ASSOCIATION: $25k → 7%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.

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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 19% of New York State United Teachers’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 84% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 65% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

New York State United Teacherslessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.9M · 40 repeat orgs$788k to everyone else

40 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
64

Total granted

$4.9M
$771k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+7%

Still filing today

88%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
EmploymentEducationMembership BenefitOther

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

  • UF
    UNITED FEDERATION OF TEACHERS LOCAL 2
    3× · 2021–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +9%
  • EL
    EDUCATION LAW CENTER INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $850k · revenue +96%
  • UU
    UNITED UNIVERSITY PROFESSIONS
    4× · 2017–2020 · $610k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • PS
    PROFESSIONAL STAFF CONGRESS CUNY
    one grant, 2018 · $90k · revenue +10%
  • MF
    MASSENA FEDERATION OF TEACHERS
    one grant, 2017 · $83k
  • RC
    RIVERHEAD CENTRAL FACULTY ASSOC
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%

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
American Federation of Teachers 2623 Esm

Bargaining collectively and processing grievances on behalf of the members in addition to sponsoring meetings and particpating in teaching conventions there are over 340 members

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2
American Federation of Teachers

Organize and support public school teachers

Employment
3
American Federation of Teachers Newtown Federation of Teachers

Newtown federation of teachers is a labor organization. its mission is to represent its public-education members in the newtown, ct school district in labor-related matters

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4
American Federation of Teachers

Local collective bargaining

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5
American Federation of Teachers 6297 Local Uic Graduate Org Ift-Aft

To serve as the bargaining agent for all graduate employees at the university of illinois-chicago and to create a culture of labor organizing among those graduate employees.

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6
American Federation of Teachers Graduate Employees Organization

Member representation in collective bargaining and related matters.

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7
American Federation of Teachers

To act as a collective bargaining agent and seek optimum working conditions. To provide members representation and due process. To act as a liason between teachers, administrators, and school committees. To promote professionalism among…

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8
American Federation of Teachers Local 801 Aft

Labor union

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9
American Federation of Teachers Cuesta College Federation Local 4909

Collective Bargaining Representation

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10
Connecticut Education Association

Teacher labor organization that assists public school teachers in Stamford CT with contract administration and negotiations.

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11
Connecticut Education Association

The objective of this organization is to promote the best interest in education to improve the promotional status of its members and to cooperate with the state and national associations for the purpose of mutual professional advancement.

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12
American Federation of Teachers Illinois State Federation

Improve the status of teachers, educational workers and other workers in the state of illinois.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Federation of Teachers and the most unlike its peers is North Shore Schools Federated Employees. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 59 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%3%<5yr13%0%5–10yr20%1%10–20yr19%0%20–35yr13%5%35–55yr17%91%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%1%<5yr13%0%5–10yr20%0%10–20yr19%0%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr17%71%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/107
the rest of the field
10%
6,312/65,540

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.

05the grantee network

77 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 77 of the 107 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
75/77
Grantees still filing
49/77
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNITED FEDERATION OF TEACHERS LOCAL 2 — $2,030,000 · OtherUNITED FEDERATION OF TEACHERS LOCAL 2UNITED UNIVERSITY PROFESSIONS — $610,000 · OtherUNITED UNIVERSITY PROFESSIONS+97 more — $1,973,168 · Other+97 moreEDUCATION LAW CENTER INC — $850,000 · EducationEDUCATION LAW CEN…AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS — $30,225 · Education+1 more — $8,000 · EducationMASSENA FEDERATION OF TEACHERS — $82,500 · Membership BenefitALBANY PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS ASSOCIATIO N AFT LOCAL #2455 — $30,220 · EmploymentAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS 2839 Mohawk Valley Community College PA — $18,445 · EmploymentAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS — $10,000 · EmploymentTHE ROCHESTER ASSOCIATION OF PARAPROFESSIONALS INC — $5,000 · Employment
Other$4,613,168Education$888,225Membership Benefit$82,500Employment$63,665

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$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNITED FEDERATION OF TEACHERS LOCAL 2 — $2,030,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetEDUCATION LAW CENTER INC — $850,000 over 9y, 6.2% of budgetUNITED UNIVERSITY PROFESSIONS — $610,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetBUFFALO TEACHERS FEDERATION INC — $125,995 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetSYRACUSE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION INC — $92,750 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetROCHESTER TEACHERS ASSOCIATION — $90,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetPROFESSIONAL STAFF CONGRESS CUNY — $90,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FED OF TEACHERS 3010 3010 SMITHTOWN TEACHERS ASSOCIA — $77,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetCLARKSTOWN TEACHER ASSOCIATION — $69,431 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS MIDDLE COUNTRY TEACHERS ASSOCIATION — $68,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetGREAT NECK TEACHERS ASSOCIATION INC — $61,475 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetAmerican Federation of Teachers - Carmel Teachers — $52,700 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS BRENTWOOD TEACHERS ASSOCIATION — $44,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetFACULTY FEDERATION OF ERIE COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $42,500 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetWAPPINGERS CONGRESS OF TEACHERS — $41,695 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS AFL-CIO PARENT ORGANIZATION — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Federation of Teachers — $39,920 over 4y, 20% of budgetNEWBURGH TEACHERS ASSOCIATION — $35,700 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS 2881 AFT — $32,004 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetYONKERS FEDERATION OF TEACHERS — $30,333 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS — $30,225 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetALBANY PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS ASSOCIATIO N AFT LOCAL #2455 — $30,220 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS — $28,771 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetAMITYVILLE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION AFT 2466 — $25,380 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetRIVERHEAD CENTRAL FACULTY ASSOC — $25,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetNEW YORK STATE ASSOCIATION OF SMALL CITY SCHOOL DISTRICTS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetCONNETQUOT TEACHERS ASSOCIATION INC — $22,900 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetEDGEMONT TEACHERS ASSOCIATION — $21,550 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetUTICA TEACHERS ASSOCIATION — $20,900 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS — $20,490 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS 2752 ISLIP TEACHERS ASSOCIATION — $20,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetPATCHOGUE MEDFORD CONGRESS OF TEACHERS — $20,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetGreece Teachers Association — $19,347 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS KENMORE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION — $19,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetAmerican Federation of Teachers 2985 Saratoga-Adirondack BOCES Employee Assoc — $18,005 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetHEWLETT-WOODMERE FACULTY ASSOCIATION — $18,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetAmerican Federation of Teachers #2698 — $17,045 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetARDSLEY CONGRESS OF TEACHERS 1768 AFT C/O THE PREFERRED GROUP — $15,653 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetHICKSVILLE CONGRESS OF TEACHERS-AFL-CIO — $15,506 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetFACULTY ASSOCIATION OF SUFFOLK COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $15,199 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS WHITE PLAINS LOCAL 3119 — $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS NASSAU COMMUNITY COLLEGE LOCAL 3150 — $14,595 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS 2938 AFT — $14,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetMAHOPAC TEACHERS ASSOCIATION 2806 AFT — $13,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCORNING TEACHERS ASSOCIATION — $13,006 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS — $13,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS 6268 DEER PARK TEACHERS ASSOCIATION — $12,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetOrchard Park Teachers Association — $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

American Federation o…
American Federation of Teachers Educational FoundationDC21.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Federation of Teachers Educational Foundation

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 New York State United Teachers 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%1%4%8%15%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
    3report 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.

    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 107 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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