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METROPOLITAN DETROIT AFL-CIO COUNCIL

METROPOLITAN DETROIT AFL-CIO COUNCIL (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,000 to it, the largest being International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 252 ($30,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$457k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$60k
Net assets
$410k
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What Metropolitan Detroit Afl-Cio Council does

Mission

To secure united action of all afl-cio local unions within its jurisdiction in order to promote general welfare, maintain, protect and advance the interests of all working people in its territory and to lend assistance to the organizing activities of affiliated local unions.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization secured united action of all afl-cio local unions within its jurisdiction in order to promote general welfare, maintain, protect and advance the interests of all working people in its territory and lended assistance to the organizing activities of affiliated local unions.

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 ($486k) Expenses 100 ($445k) Net assets 100 ($71k)2018 Revenue 104 ($506k) Expenses 92 ($411k) Net assets 234 ($166k)2019 Revenue 104 ($505k) Expenses 74 ($328k) Net assets 484 ($343k)2020 Revenue 87 ($425k) Expenses 75 ($335k) Net assets 611 ($433k)2021 Revenue 81 ($394k) Expenses 91 ($407k) Net assets 592 ($420k)2022 Revenue 86 ($416k) Expenses 93 ($412k) Net assets 598 ($424k)2023 Revenue 78 ($381k) Expenses 101 ($450k) Net assets 500 ($355k)2024 Revenue 94 ($457k) Expenses 90 ($401k) Net assets 579 ($410k)
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Revenue (94)Expenses (90)Net assets (579)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $212k to $399k (+89%).

$131k
$212k
$399k
$481k
$442k
$438k
$377k
$428k
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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. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$41k
’17
$95k
’18
$177k
’19
$90k
’20
−$13k
’21
$4k
’22
−$69k
’23
$56k
’24
12
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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Listed1514151412121212
Joined·+3+9+2+0+4+0+0
No longer listed·4832400
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

Left out of every figure on this page: $180k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations). These are real filings, and they are not money METROPOLITAN DETROIT AFL-CIO COUNCIL raised.

From the IRS filings of METROPOLITAN DETROIT AFL-CIO COUNCIL’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

METROPOLITAN DETROIT AFL-CIO COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% 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 METROPOLITAN DETROIT AFL-CIO COUNCIL.

50%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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

METROPOLITAN DETROIT AFL-CIO COUNCIL draws 50% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 2 states in all.

MI
GA

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 METROPOLITAN DETROIT AFL-CIO COUNCIL

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 Michigan

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for METROPOLITAN DETROIT AFL-CIO COUNCIL: 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 METROPOLITAN DETROIT AFL-CIO COUNCIL?
METROPOLITAN DETROIT AFL-CIO COUNCIL (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,000 to it, the largest being International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 252 ($30,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does METROPOLITAN DETROIT AFL-CIO COUNCIL have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $60,000 in grants to METROPOLITAN DETROIT AFL-CIO COUNCIL.
Who is the largest funder of METROPOLITAN DETROIT AFL-CIO COUNCIL?
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 252 is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like METROPOLITAN DETROIT AFL-CIO COUNCIL find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 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