Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LETTER CARRIERS
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LETTER CARRIERS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,250,000 to it, the largest being UNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIAL WORKERS INTERNATIONAL UNION ($3,250,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2B
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $896M
What National Association of Letter Carriers does
Mission
Founded in 1889, the National Association of Letter Carriers of the united states of america is a labor organization for city letter carriers who are employed by the united states postal service.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Served more than 290,000 active and retired letter carriers and other employees of the u.s. Postal service in 1,575 branches throughout the united states, district of columbia, puerto rico, the virgin islands and guam; fraternally united all members for their mutual benefit, to obtain and secure their rights and benefits, and to promote the welfare of every member.
Sponsorship of a federal employee health benefit plan as an employee organization plan under the fehbp covering postal and other federal employees and annuitants and their families.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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 $1.2B to $1.4B (+20%).
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.
0% of NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LETTER CARRIERS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (18% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $500k → $250k.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LETTER CARRIERS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 1 of 3 funders by total. 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 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LETTER CARRIERS's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. 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.
Against its field
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LETTER CARRIERS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 27 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 27 employment nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Organizations like NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LETTER CARRIERS
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 7 related entities
- Nalc Annuity Trust Fund · exempt
- Letter Carrier Political Fund · exempt
- Nalc Health Benefit Plan for Employees · exempt
- Nalcrest Foundation Inc · exempt
- United States Letter Carriers Mutual Ben · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LETTER CARRIERS: 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 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LETTER CARRIERS?
- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LETTER CARRIERS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,250,000 to it, the largest being UNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIAL WORKERS INTERNATIONAL UNION ($3,250,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LETTER CARRIERS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $3,250,000 in grants to NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LETTER CARRIERS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LETTER CARRIERS?
- UNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIAL WORKERS INTERNATIONAL UNION is the largest funder on record, with $3,250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LETTER CARRIERS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 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