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AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS

AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS (Illinois) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $957,938 to it, the largest being AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS ($265,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$4.6M
Funders on record
17
Grants received
$958k
Net assets
$9.3M
5/17 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations does

Mission

To organize all workers for the econimic, moral and social advancement of their condition and status.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To promote and protect the cause of unionism within the state of illinois through legislation and education.

The program described on its FY2025 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 ($3.3M) Expenses 100 ($3.0M) Net assets 100 ($5.3M)2018 Revenue 106 ($3.5M) Expenses 106 ($3.2M) Net assets 107 ($5.6M)2019 Revenue 115 ($3.8M) Expenses 97 ($2.9M) Net assets 132 ($7.0M)2020 Revenue 113 ($3.8M) Expenses 122 ($3.7M) Net assets 134 ($7.1M)2021 Revenue 96 ($3.2M) Expenses 89 ($2.7M) Net assets 144 ($7.6M)2022 Revenue 108 ($3.6M) Expenses 127 ($3.8M) Net assets 139 ($7.3M)2023 Revenue 112 ($3.7M) Expenses 103 ($3.1M) Net assets 151 ($8.0M)2024 Revenue 146 ($4.9M) Expenses 139 ($4.2M) Net assets 163 ($8.6M)2025 Revenue 139 ($4.6M) Expenses 131 ($3.9M) Net assets 176 ($9.3M)
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Revenue (139)Expenses (131)Net assets (176)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $5.6M to $7.0M (+24%).

$5.3M
$5.6M
$7.0M
$7.1M
$7.6M
$7.3M
$8.0M
$8.6M
$9.3M
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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. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$310k
’17
$345k
’18
$906k
’19
$96k
’20
$526k
’21
−$245k
’22
$624k
’23
$660k
’24
$676k
’25
21
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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Listed434643444646434646
Joined·+5+2+5+5+6+2+5+4
No longer listed·25436524
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $36k → $107k.

From the IRS filings of AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 16 of 17 funders by total. 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.

How concentrated its funding is

AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS.

28%
largest funder
61%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 74% · 2019 35% · 2020 78% · 2021 80% · 2023 93% — growing more concentrated.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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.

How long its funders stay

0% of AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 29% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

70% of AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL
DC

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

’18
’19
’20
’21
’23
Illinois 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

Organizations like AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS

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 Illinois

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Governance

37
board members
95%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Afl-Cio Illinois State Committee on Political Education · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS?
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS (Illinois) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $957,938 to it, the largest being AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS ($265,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS have?
IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $957,938 in grants to AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS?
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS is the largest funder on record, with $265,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 17 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