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GREATER BOSTON MASS LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIO

GREATER BOSTON MASS LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIO (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $364,950 to it, the largest being AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS ($357,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$764k
Revenue FY2025
3
Funders on record
$365k
Grants received
$69k
Net assets
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 14%

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($426k) Expenses 100 ($391k) Net assets 100 ($244k)2018 Revenue 107 ($457k) Expenses 107 ($420k) Net assets 115 ($280k)2019 Revenue 107 ($455k) Expenses 98 ($385k) Net assets 144 ($350k)2020 Revenue 80 ($341k) Expenses 114 ($445k) Net assets 101 ($246k)2021 Revenue 126 ($536k) Expenses 120 ($469k) Net assets 128 ($313k)2022 Revenue 116 ($494k) Expenses 147 ($576k) Net assets 95 ($231k)2023 Revenue 92 ($391k) Expenses 133 ($520k) Net assets 42 ($102k)2024 Revenue 100 ($427k) Expenses 132 ($517k) Net assets 5 ($12k)2025 Revenue 179 ($764k) Expenses 181 ($708k) Net assets 28 ($69k)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (179)Expenses (181)Net assets (28)

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

Government-grant reliance: 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$35k
’17
$36k
’18
$70k
’19
−$104k
’20
$67k
’21
−$82k
’22
−$129k
’23
−$90k
’24
$57k
’25
1.7
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $60k → $45k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
2
1
1
2
1

From the IRS filings of GREATER BOSTON MASS LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 2 of 3 funders by total. Association, not causation.

How concentrated its funding is

GREATER BOSTON MASS LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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

98%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 83% — diversifying over time.

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

Where its funders are

GREATER BOSTON MASS LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIO draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 2 states in all.

MA
DC

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.

03Its place in the field

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.

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 GREATER BOSTON MASS LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIO

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 Massachusetts

Western Massachusetts Area Labor Federation81%Boston Teachers Union79%Community Labor United Inc77%Massachusetts State Labor Council Afl-Cio77%Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce76%Beacon Hill Civic Association Inc76%American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Orgs76%Aft Massachusetts76%

Nationally

Western Massachusetts Area Labor Federation81%Boston Teachers Union79%Community Labor United Inc77%Massachusetts State Labor Council Afl-Cio77%United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America Lu No 9776%United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America Local Union No 10676%Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce76%Beacon Hill Civic Association Inc76%
04Profile & governance

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

Governance

45
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Afl-Cio · exempt
  • Community Labor United · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GREATER BOSTON MASS LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIO: 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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds GREATER BOSTON MASS LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIO?
GREATER BOSTON MASS LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIO (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $364,950 to it, the largest being AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS ($357,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GREATER BOSTON MASS LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIO have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $364,950 in grants to GREATER BOSTON MASS LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIO, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GREATER BOSTON MASS LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIO?
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS is the largest funder on record, with $357,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GREATER BOSTON MASS LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIO find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 3funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing