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WISCONSIN STATE AFL-CIO

WISCONSIN STATE AFL-CIO (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being UNITED STEELWORKERS INTL GROUP RETURN ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.8M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$50k
Net assets
$2.6M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Wisconsin State Afl-Cio does

Mission

The mission of the Wisconsin State Afl-Cio is to improve the lives of working families, to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our state and the nation.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Organization operates as a labor organization exempt under irs section 501(c)(5)

The program described on its FY2025 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 ($1.7M) Expenses 100 ($1.6M) Net assets 100 ($846k)2018 Revenue 117 ($2.0M) Expenses 102 ($1.6M) Net assets 145 ($1.2M)2019 Revenue 88 ($1.5M) Expenses 81 ($1.3M) Net assets 174 ($1.5M)2020 Revenue 117 ($2.0M) Expenses 109 ($1.7M) Net assets 208 ($1.8M)2021 Revenue 89 ($1.5M) Expenses 90 ($1.4M) Net assets 220 ($1.9M)2022 Revenue 110 ($1.9M) Expenses 113 ($1.8M) Net assets 234 ($2.0M)2023 Revenue 95 ($1.6M) Expenses 87 ($1.4M) Net assets 264 ($2.2M)2024 Revenue 127 ($2.2M) Expenses 121 ($1.9M) Net assets 298 ($2.5M)2025 Revenue 105 ($1.8M) Expenses 112 ($1.8M) Net assets 304 ($2.6M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (105)Expenses (112)Net assets (304)

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 $2.9M to $3.3M (+12%).

$2.3M
$2.3M
$2.5M
$2.7M
$3.1M
$2.9M
$2.9M
$3.3M
$3.4M
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$148k
’17
$403k
’18
$243k
’19
$288k
’20
$101k
’21
$115k
’22
$254k
’23
$293k
’24
$47k
’25
20
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.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Listed222323232324232321
Joined·+4+4+0+2+9+4+0+5
No longer listed·34028507
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

Funder
'18
'24*
total
funders
1
1

Left out of every figure on this page: $2.2M from 4 payers (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 WISCONSIN STATE AFL-CIO raised.

From the IRS filings of WISCONSIN STATE AFL-CIO’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

WISCONSIN STATE AFL-CIO draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 1 state in all.

PA

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 WISCONSIN STATE AFL-CIO

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 Wisconsin

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Governance

22
board members
91%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WISCONSIN STATE AFL-CIO: 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 WISCONSIN STATE AFL-CIO?
WISCONSIN STATE AFL-CIO (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being UNITED STEELWORKERS INTL GROUP RETURN ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WISCONSIN STATE AFL-CIO have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $50,000 in grants to WISCONSIN STATE AFL-CIO, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WISCONSIN STATE AFL-CIO?
UNITED STEELWORKERS INTL GROUP RETURN is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WISCONSIN STATE AFL-CIO find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 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