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DENVER AREA LABOR FEDERATION

DENVER AREA LABOR FEDERATION (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $503,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS ($283,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$291k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$503k
Net assets
$60k
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 27%
01What it does

What Denver Area Labor Federation does

Mission

Regarding polcies and initiatives in support of workers rights and to provide essential support for such organization

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Provides a network for labor/community solidarity, progressive policy, and member education programs with organizations and coalitions advocates for legislative change that benefits working people. The main objective is to build power for working families at the municipal, county, school board, and regional transportation district levels. In conjunction with the united way, the organization provides salary and benefits to a hired community liason.

    $247,536 spent$291,289 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. none

  3. none

  4. None

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $247,536.

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 ($350k) Expenses 100 ($375k) Net assets 100 ($77k)2018 Revenue 112 ($391k) Expenses 106 ($398k) Net assets 92 ($70k)2019 Revenue 114 ($398k) Expenses 125 ($468k) Net assets 0 ($357)2020 Revenue 148 ($518k) Expenses 140 ($524k) Net assets -8 ($-5858)2021 Revenue 127 ($444k) Expenses 96 ($360k) Net assets 108 ($83k)2022 Revenue 114 ($398k) Expenses 109 ($409k) Net assets 103 ($79k)2023 Revenue 72 ($252k) Expenses 84 ($316k) Net assets 23 ($18k)2024 Revenue 83 ($291k) Expenses 66 ($248k) Net assets 78 ($60k)
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Revenue (83)Expenses (66)Net assets (78)

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 $1k to $84k (+8131%).

$77k
$71k
$5k
$1k
$84k
$80k
$18k
$60k
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$25k
’17
−$6k
’18
−$70k
’19
−$6k
’20
$84k
’21
−$11k
’22
−$63k
’23
$44k
’24
2.5
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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Listed44444555
Joined·+0+1+0+4+5+0+0
No longer listed·0104400
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $50k → $38k.

From the IRS filings of DENVER AREA LABOR FEDERATION’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

DENVER AREA LABOR FEDERATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% 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 DENVER AREA LABOR FEDERATION.

56%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 58% · 2019 60% · 2020 69% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

DENVER AREA LABOR FEDERATION draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 2 states in all.

CO
DC

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Colorado 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 DENVER AREA LABOR FEDERATION

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 Colorado

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Governance

24
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 DENVER AREA LABOR FEDERATION?
DENVER AREA LABOR FEDERATION (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $503,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS ($283,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DENVER AREA LABOR FEDERATION have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $503,000 in grants to DENVER AREA LABOR FEDERATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DENVER AREA LABOR FEDERATION?
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS is the largest funder on record, with $283,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DENVER AREA LABOR FEDERATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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