Michigan · Nonprofit
TEAMSTER RANK AND FILE EDUCATION AND LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION
TEAMSTER RANK AND FILE EDUCATION AND LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,394,129 to it, the largest being Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ($617,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Teamster Rank and File Education and Legal Defense Foundation does
Mission
Education and Legal Rights Enforcement
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Provision of education, legal and technical assistance to members of the Teamsters Union and other members of the public regarding labor law, labor organization governance and other related topics. Activities include research, consultation with subject matter experts and literature/educational materials preparation and development.
$662,126 spent$281,402 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $662,126.
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 2023 to 2024, from $826k to $1.4M (+68%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 9% · 2021 10% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $30k → $844k.
12 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of TEAMSTER RANK AND FILE EDUCATION AND LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION’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
TEAMSTER RANK AND FILE EDUCATION AND LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
85% 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 TEAMSTER RANK AND FILE EDUCATION AND LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 71% · 2019 77% · 2020 54% · 2021 42% · 2022 60% · 2023 30% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
83% of TEAMSTER RANK AND FILE EDUCATION AND LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
53% of TEAMSTER RANK AND FILE EDUCATION AND LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.1M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Michigan, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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 TEAMSTER RANK AND FILE EDUCATION AND LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
52% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Teamsters for a Democratic Union · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TEAMSTER RANK AND FILE EDUCATION AND LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION?
- TEAMSTER RANK AND FILE EDUCATION AND LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,394,129 to it, the largest being Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ($617,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TEAMSTER RANK AND FILE EDUCATION AND LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $2,394,129 in grants to TEAMSTER RANK AND FILE EDUCATION AND LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TEAMSTER RANK AND FILE EDUCATION AND LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION?
- Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $617,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TEAMSTER RANK AND FILE EDUCATION AND LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION 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 19 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