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AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR & CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGS

AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR & CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGS (Vermont) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $218,000 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 FY2025
$319k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$218k
Net assets
$230k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 26%
01What it does

What American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Orgs does

Mission

Aid and assist affiliated organizations by extending the benefits of mutual assistance and collective bargaining; and to promote union organization through education and policy.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Organize new union affiliates, provide training to employees interested in forming a union at their workplaces, educate on relevant policy and legislation, assist organizations in promoting social justice causes.

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($150k) Expenses 100 ($179k) Net assets 100 ($29k)2022 Revenue 85 ($127k) Expenses 68 ($122k) Net assets 115 ($33k)2023 Revenue 161 ($241k) Expenses 121 ($216k) Net assets 201 ($58k)2024 Revenue 184 ($275k) Expenses 92 ($166k) Net assets 581 ($168k)2025 Revenue 213 ($319k) Expenses 144 ($257k) Net assets 796 ($230k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (213)Expenses (144)Net assets (796)

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 $62k to $176k (+183%).

$31k
$37k
$62k
$176k
$238k
20212022202320242025
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.

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 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$30k
’21
$4k
’22
$25k
’23
$110k
’24
$62k
’25
11
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

Jean-Paul Isabelle

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202320242025
Listed263323
Joined·+9+0
No longer listed·210
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $35k → $63k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'23
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
2

From the IRS filings of AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR & CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGS’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 & CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 & CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGS.

92%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 71% — 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.

Where its funders are

AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR & CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGS draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside Vermont, across 2 states in all.

VT
DC

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’23
Vermont 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 & CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGS

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 Vermont

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Governance

22
board members
86%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR & CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGS?
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR & CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGS (Vermont) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $218,000 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 AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR & CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGS have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $218,000 in grants to AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR & CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR & CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGS?
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 AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR & CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 2 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