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AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS 6297 LOCAL UIC GRADUATE ORG IFT-AFT

AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS 6297 LOCAL UIC GRADUATE ORG IFT-AFT (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS LOCAL 705 ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$382k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$10k
Net assets
$676k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What American Federation of Teachers 6297 Local Uic Graduate Org Ift-Aft does

Mission

To serve as the bargaining agent for all graduate employees at the university of illinois-chicago and to create a culture of labor organizing among those graduate employees.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To negotiate & administer the collective bargaining agreement, handle members grievances and perform its duties as the exclusive representative in dealing with the employer in labor management duties.

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 ($603k) Expenses 100 ($586k) Net assets 100 ($350k)2018 Revenue 107 ($648k) Expenses 97 ($571k) Net assets 122 ($427k)2019 Revenue 82 ($497k) Expenses 80 ($469k) Net assets 130 ($455k)2020 Revenue 74 ($445k) Expenses 67 ($391k) Net assets 145 ($509k)2021 Revenue 63 ($382k) Expenses 63 ($369k) Net assets 149 ($521k)2022 Revenue 60 ($363k) Expenses 56 ($328k) Net assets 159 ($556k)2023 Revenue 66 ($399k) Expenses 57 ($333k) Net assets 181 ($632k)2024 Revenue 70 ($423k) Expenses 72 ($423k) Net assets 181 ($632k)2025 Revenue 63 ($382k) Expenses 58 ($338k) Net assets 193 ($676k)
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Revenue (63)Expenses (58)Net assets (193)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $390k to $497k (+27%).

$390k
$497k
$528k
$575k
$549k
$618k
$696k
$709k
$741k
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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.

$17k
’17
$77k
’18
$28k
’19
$54k
’20
$13k
’21
$34k
’22
$66k
’23
−$144
’24
$44k
’25
24
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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Listed8999917121717
Joined·+7+4+0+6+8+4+8+8
No longer listed·64060938
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'19
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS 6297 LOCAL UIC GRADUATE ORG IFT-AFT’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 AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS 6297 LOCAL UIC GRADUATE ORG IFT-AFT's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL

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 TEACHERS 6297 LOCAL UIC GRADUATE ORG IFT-AFT

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In Illinois

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Governance

9
board members
100%
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 TEACHERS 6297 LOCAL UIC GRADUATE ORG IFT-AFT?
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS 6297 LOCAL UIC GRADUATE ORG IFT-AFT (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS LOCAL 705 ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS 6297 LOCAL UIC GRADUATE ORG IFT-AFT have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS 6297 LOCAL UIC GRADUATE ORG IFT-AFT.
Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS 6297 LOCAL UIC GRADUATE ORG IFT-AFT?
INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS LOCAL 705 is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS 6297 LOCAL UIC GRADUATE ORG IFT-AFT 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.

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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 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