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AMALGAMATED TRANSIT UNION

AMALGAMATED TRANSIT UNION (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $32,587 to it, the largest being Amalgamated Transit Union Local 587 ($32,587). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$56M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$33k
Net assets
$221M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Amalgamated Transit Union does

Mission

The object of the international union shall be to organize local unions. To place our occupation on a higher plane of intelligence, efficiency and skill; encourage settlement of disputes between employees and employers; secure employment and adequate pay for our work. To engage in such legislative, political, educational, cultural, social and welfare activities as will further the interests and welfare of the membership. To seek the improvement of social and economic conditions in the united states and canada and to promote the interests of labor everywhere.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Labor union activities including membership administration and representation, education, organizing, and contract administration.

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 ($53M) Expenses 100 ($35M) Net assets 100 ($167M)2018 Revenue 65 ($35M) Expenses 98 ($34M) Net assets 101 ($168M)2019 Revenue 73 ($39M) Expenses 95 ($33M) Net assets 104 ($174M)2020 Revenue 71 ($38M) Expenses 105 ($36M) Net assets 105 ($176M)2021 Revenue 100 ($53M) Expenses 88 ($30M) Net assets 119 ($199M)2022 Revenue 68 ($36M) Expenses 95 ($33M) Net assets 121 ($202M)2023 Revenue 100 ($53M) Expenses 137 ($47M) Net assets 125 ($208M)2024 Revenue 89 ($47M) Expenses 117 ($40M) Net assets 129 ($215M)2025 Revenue 105 ($56M) Expenses 143 ($49M) Net assets 133 ($221M)
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Revenue (105)Expenses (143)Net assets (133)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $184M to $207M (+13%).

$173M
$175M
$181M
$184M
$207M
$211M
$225M
$242M
$249M
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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
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$19M
’17
$944k
’18
$6.1M
’19
$1.7M
’20
$23M
’21
$3.5M
’22
$5.9M
’23
$7.0M
’24
$6.3M
’25
1.2
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.

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Listed272628272712182324
Joined·+1+3+2+3+12+7+14+10
No longer listed·213327199
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $8k.

Funder
'21
'22
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1

Left out of every figure on this page: $46k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Amalgamated Transit Union). These are real filings, and they are not money AMALGAMATED TRANSIT UNION raised.

From the IRS filings of AMALGAMATED TRANSIT UNION’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

AMALGAMATED TRANSIT UNION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 1 state in all.

WA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’21
’22
Maryland out of state home

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

Government funding AMALGAMATED TRANSIT UNION receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.0M on record.

Federal$8.0M
grants $8.0Mcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Labor$8.0M

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like AMALGAMATED TRANSIT UNION

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 Maryland

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Governance

21
board members
0%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 22 related entities

  • Atu Tech Properties LLC · disregarded
  • Atu Dupont Circle LLC · disregarded
  • Amalgamated Transit Union Pension Plan for International Officers and Ee's · exempt
  • Atu Disaster Relief Fund · exempt
  • Atu Jerry Fund · exempt

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMALGAMATED TRANSIT UNION: 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 AMALGAMATED TRANSIT UNION?
AMALGAMATED TRANSIT UNION (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $32,587 to it, the largest being Amalgamated Transit Union Local 587 ($32,587). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does AMALGAMATED TRANSIT UNION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $32,587 in grants to AMALGAMATED TRANSIT UNION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AMALGAMATED TRANSIT UNION?
Amalgamated Transit Union Local 587 is the largest funder on record, with $32,587 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AMALGAMATED TRANSIT UNION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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