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AFL-CIO UNION LAWYERS ALLIANCE

AFL-CIO UNION LAWYERS ALLIANCE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $200,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS ($200,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$930k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$200k
Net assets
$2.5M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Afl-Cio Union Lawyers Alliance does

Mission

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 affiliated with the afl-cio.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provided information sharing services and legal education to lawyers who represent the american federation of labor and congress of industrial organizations and its affiliated local, national and international unions.

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($867k) Net assets 100 ($1.0M)2018 Revenue 97 ($1.0M) Expenses 91 ($789k) Net assets 124 ($1.3M)2019 Revenue 96 ($1.0M) Expenses 99 ($862k) Net assets 142 ($1.5M)2021 Revenue 83 ($898k) Expenses 72 ($624k) Net assets 209 ($2.1M)2022 Revenue 87 ($937k) Expenses 85 ($738k) Net assets 228 ($2.3M)2023 Revenue 88 ($950k) Expenses 90 ($783k) Net assets 244 ($2.5M)2024 Revenue 86 ($930k) Expenses 109 ($943k) Net assets 243 ($2.5M)
2017201820192021202220232024
Revenue (86)Expenses (109)Net assets (243)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $2.7M to $3.0M (+15%).

$1.1M
$1.4M
$1.5M
$2.2M
$2.4M
$2.7M
$3.0M
2017201820192021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$211k
’17
$252k
’18
$177k
’19
$274k
’21
$199k
’22
$167k
’23
−$13k
’24
38
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Matthew Ginsburg

Exec. Director/pres. Of th

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.

2017201820192021202220232024
Listed46534745474347
Joined·+16+7·+10+10+8
No longer listed·913·8144
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $0.

From the IRS filings of AFL-CIO UNION LAWYERS ALLIANCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

100% of AFL-CIO UNION LAWYERS ALLIANCE's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.

DC

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like AFL-CIO UNION LAWYERS ALLIANCE

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Washington, D.C.

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Governance

40
board members
98%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

DC

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AFL-CIO UNION LAWYERS ALLIANCE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds AFL-CIO UNION LAWYERS ALLIANCE?
AFL-CIO UNION LAWYERS ALLIANCE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $200,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS ($200,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does AFL-CIO UNION LAWYERS ALLIANCE have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $200,000 in grants to AFL-CIO UNION LAWYERS ALLIANCE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AFL-CIO UNION LAWYERS ALLIANCE?
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AFL-CIO UNION LAWYERS ALLIANCE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing