Minnesota · Nonprofit
MINNEAPOLIS FEDERATION OF TEACHERS LOCAL 59
MINNEAPOLIS FEDERATION OF TEACHERS LOCAL 59 (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,865,310 to it, the largest being EDUCATION MINNESOTA ($5,197,753). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.1M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $5.9M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Minneapolis Federation of Teachers Local 59 does
Mission
We exist to ensure that all students learn. We support their growth into knowledgeable, skilled, and confident citizens capable of succeeding in their work, personal, and family lives into the 21st century. Mft represents its membership, negotiates three contracts, and works to improve the material conditions for learning in our public schools.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The minneapolis federation of teachers and esp (education support professionals), local 59, is the exclusive representative of the teachers and educational assistants employed by the minneapolis schools. We work in collaboration with the minneapolis public schools to provide high quality education to the children and families of minneapolis. We have been serving the needs of our members since 1919. We are proud of our members and of what they do. They are among the best educators in the country. We are affiliates of the american federation of teachers, the afl-cio, and education minnesota. We are also founding members of the teacher union reform network (turn), and a network of the most progressive teacher unions in the country. The mission of the minneapolis federation of teachers, afl- cio, improves the lives of our members and their families, gives voice to their legitimate professional, economic and social aspirations, strengthens the institutions in which we work, improves the quality of the services we provide, brings together all members to assist and support one another and to promote democracy, human rights and freedom in our union, in our nation and throughout the world.
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $4.6M to $1.8M (−62%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Board chair
Rebecca Miller Ecse Wilder
Mrlf chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $441k → $682k.
From the IRS filings of MINNEAPOLIS FEDERATION OF TEACHERS LOCAL 59’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
MINNEAPOLIS FEDERATION OF TEACHERS LOCAL 59 leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% 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 MINNEAPOLIS FEDERATION OF TEACHERS LOCAL 59.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 58% · 2019 91% · 2020 100% · 2021 96% · 2022 83% · 2023 83% — growing more concentrated.
“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
89% of MINNEAPOLIS FEDERATION OF TEACHERS LOCAL 59's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Organizations like MINNEAPOLIS FEDERATION OF TEACHERS LOCAL 59
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Mft Building Corp · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MINNEAPOLIS FEDERATION OF TEACHERS LOCAL 59: 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 MINNEAPOLIS FEDERATION OF TEACHERS LOCAL 59?
- MINNEAPOLIS FEDERATION OF TEACHERS LOCAL 59 (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,865,310 to it, the largest being EDUCATION MINNESOTA ($5,197,753). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MINNEAPOLIS FEDERATION OF TEACHERS LOCAL 59 have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $5,865,310 in grants to MINNEAPOLIS FEDERATION OF TEACHERS LOCAL 59, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MINNEAPOLIS FEDERATION OF TEACHERS LOCAL 59?
- EDUCATION MINNESOTA is the largest funder on record, with $5,197,753 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MINNEAPOLIS FEDERATION OF TEACHERS LOCAL 59 find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 4 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