Minnesota · Nonprofit
MN Council Number 5 of AFSCME
MN Council Number 5 of AFSCME (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS LOCAL UNION NO 320 ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $27M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $25k
- Net assets
- $6.3M
What MN Council Number 5 of AFSCME does
Mission
AFSCME Council 5 is a union of 26,800 members who advocate for excellence in services for the public, dignity in the workplace, and opportunity and prosperity for all working families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
FIELD SERVICES The field services department continues to engage Locals in AFSCME STRONG plans to foster local empowerment and to build local union membership within our established 125 locals and engaging with 43,338 individuals within our locals, with 31,549 logged assesments. In 2025 the Council signed 4,866 new members, 410 PEOPLE members, with 364 signing for PEOPLE MVP. We had 403 drop requests. The Council also reimplemented the BECK process which has resuilted in hundreds of AFPs and dozens of new members.Field Reps continue to provided training, to negotiate contracts and to assist with grievances and external organizing.
The program described on its FY2025 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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 $12M to $13M (+10%).
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.
1% of MN Council Number 5 of AFSCME’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Bart Andersen
C5 Exec Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
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: $128k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Education Minnesota). These are real filings, and they are not money MN Council Number 5 of AFSCME raised.
From the IRS filings of MN Council Number 5 of AFSCME’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 MN Council Number 5 of AFSCME's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
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.
Against its field
MN Council Number 5 of AFSCME holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 274 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 274 employment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like MN Council Number 5 of AFSCME
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
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- AFSCME Building Corporation · exempt
- AFSCME Council 5 Member's Health & Welfare · exempt
- AFSCME Council 5 PEOPLE Fund · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MN Council Number 5 of AFSCME: 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 MN Council Number 5 of AFSCME?
- MN Council Number 5 of AFSCME (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS LOCAL UNION NO 320 ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MN Council Number 5 of AFSCME have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $25,000 in grants to MN Council Number 5 of AFSCME.
- Who is the largest funder of MN Council Number 5 of AFSCME?
- INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS LOCAL UNION NO 320 is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MN Council Number 5 of AFSCME 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 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