Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $785,500 to it, the largest being UNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIAL WORKERS INTERNATIONAL UNION ($347,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- International Brotherhood of Electrical Workersshared funders
- United Steelworkers Intl Group Returnportfolio match
- Office and Professional Employees International Unionportfolio match
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.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $32k → $218k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $5.0M from 8 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees). These are real filings, and they are not money AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS raised.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS’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.
How concentrated its funding is
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
99% 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.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 86% · 2020 85% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 34% — diversifying over time.
“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
33% of AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
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
74% of AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 10 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- International Brotherhood of Electrical Workersshared fundersDC · backs 40 organizations that share your funders
- United Steelworkers Intl Group Returnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Office and Professional Employees International Unionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Aft Disaster Relief Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Mine Workers of Americaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Public Pension Coalitionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- International Brotherhood of Teamstersshared fundersDC · backs 28 organizations that share your funders
- Instructional Telecommunications Foundation Incshared fundersCO · backs 24 organizations that share your funders
- Open Society Action Fund Incshared funderslocalNY · backs 40 organizations that share your funders · funds 133 organizations near you
- America Votesshared fundersDC · backs 22 organizations that share your funders
- Tides Advocacyshared fundersCA · backs 28 organizations that share your funders
- Democracy Fund Incshared funderslocalDC · backs 26 organizations that share your funders · funds 123 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 20 related entities
- Afl-Cio Union Lawyers Alliance · exempt
- Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions Afl-Cio · exempt
- American Center for International Labor Solidarity · exempt
- Afl-Cio Mutual Benefit Fund · exempt
- Working America · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS?
- AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $785,500 to it, the largest being UNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIAL WORKERS INTERNATIONAL UNION ($347,000). 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 10 organizations giving $785,500 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?
- UNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIAL WORKERS INTERNATIONAL UNION is the largest funder on record, with $347,000 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 Washington, D.C.. 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 10funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing