GrantmakersNew York

New York State United Teachers

Latham, NY · EIN 14-1584772. Reported 91 grants totalling $3,421,593 to 74 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

74organizations funded
$9,931median reported grant
$3,421,593granted, 2020-2023
21%of grantees funded again the next year
59%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 74 distinct organizations, with 59% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
  3. How much its list changes. 21% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $9,931. Half of what it reported fell between $7,500 and $15,000; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $2,000,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
46 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
35 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
4 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
1 grant
$100,000 - $250,000
4 grants
$250,000 Or More
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
American Federation of TeachersNew York, NY$2,030,000332023
Education Law Center IncNewark, NJ$400,000442023
American Federation of TeachersBuffalo, NY$80,000112021
American Federation of TeachersSmithtown, NY$52,000332023
American Federation of TeachersHauppauge, NY$44,500222023
American Federation of TeachersRochester, NY$30,000112020
American Federation of TeachersSelden, NY$29,600222021
American Federation of TeachersFarmingville, NY$28,771222023
American Federation of TeachersRiverhead, NY$25,000112023
American Federation of TeachersCarmel, NY$23,200222023
American Federation of TeachersBohemia, NY$22,900222022
American Federation of TeachersScarsdale, NY$21,550112023
American Federation of TeachersN Syracuse, NY$20,308212022
American Federation of TeachersYonkers, NY$20,164222023
American Federation of TeachersSyracuse, NY$20,000112022
American Federation of TeachersPatchogue, NY$20,000112021
American Federation of TeachersIslip, NY$20,000112021
American Federation of TeachersRochester, NY$19,347222022
American Federation of TeachersAlbany, NY$19,000112023
American Federation of TeachersTonawanda, NY$19,000222023
American Federation of TeachersHewlett, NY$18,000112023
American Federation of TeachersAmityville, NY$16,500112023
American Federation of TeachersSelden, NY$15,199112023
American Federation of TeachersWhite Plains, NY$15,000112022
American Federation of TeachersGarden City, NY$14,595112021
American Federation of TeachersRoosevelt, NY$13,000112022
American Federation of TeachersPittsford, NY$13,000112023
American Federation of TeachersRochester, NY$12,000222023
American Federation of TeachersRochester, NY$10,000112022
American Federation of TeachersPoughkeepsie, NY$10,000112023
American Federation of TeachersBellport, NY$10,000112021
American Federation of TeachersHempstead, NY$10,000112021
American Federation of TeachersWest Seneca, NY$10,000112021
American Federation of TeachersEast Setauket, NY$10,000112021
American Federation of TeachersWest Seneca, NY$10,000112021
Hicksville Congress of TeachersHicksville, NY$10,000112023
American Federation of TeachersNew City, NY$9,931112022
American Federation of TeachersQueensbury, NY$9,265112022
American Federation of TeachersCedarhurst, NY$9,000112022
American Federation of TeachersGlen Head, NY$9,000112021
American Federation of TeachersCastleton, NY$8,500112023
American Federation of TeachersSyracuse, NY$8,300112023
Ithaca Csd Employees AssociationTrumansburg, NY$8,200112023
American Federation of TeachersCheektowaga, NY$8,191112022
American Federation of TeachersSpencerport, NY$8,000112022
American Federation of TeachersCamillus, NY$8,000112022
American Federation of TeachersGuildrlnd Ctr, NY$8,000112023
American Federation of TeachersLockport, NY$8,000112023
American Federation of TeachersOceanside, NY$8,000112023
American Federation of TeachersFarmingdale, NY$8,000112021
American Federation of TeachersSayville, NY$8,000112021
American Federation of TeachersWest Babylon, NY$7,500112023
American Federation of TeachersCommack, NY$7,500112021
American Federation of TeachersGreat Neck, NY$7,500112021
American Federation of TeachersEndwell, NY$7,500112021
American Federation of TeachersMontrose, NY$7,500112021
American Federation of TeachersManlius, NY$7,400112023
American Federation of TeachersFredonia, NY$7,152112023
American Federation of TeachersCheektowaga, NY$7,000112023
American Federation of TeachersMiddle Island, NY$7,000112023
American Federation of TeachersRye Brook, NY$7,000112023
American Federation of TeachersGansevoort, NY$7,000112023
American Federation of TeachersSayville, NY$7,000112021
American Federation of TeachersRockville Ctr, NY$7,000112021
American Federation of TeachersPainted Post, NY$6,950112023
American Federation of TeachersDeer Park, NY$6,000112022
American Federation of TeachersDeposit, NY$6,000112023
American Federation of TeachersSaranac, NY$6,000112023
American Federation of TeachersHamburg, NY$6,000112021
American Federation of TeachersPrt Washingtn, NY$5,970112023
American Federation of TeachersTroy, NY$5,600112023
American Federation of TeachersBabylon, NY$5,500112022
Eastport-South Manor Teachers AssociationWading River, NY$5,500112021
American Federation of TeachersRochester, NY$5,000112020

12 of 74 (16%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 10 of 74 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Employment
7 orgs
Education
3 orgs

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
20205$2,144,600$30,000
202130$479,359$10,000
202220$302,342$9,965
202336$495,292$8,250

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

88% of its giving went to organizations in New York. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

New York
$3.0M
New Jersey
$400K

Down to the city

New York, NY
$2.0M
Newark, NJ
$400K
Buffalo, NY
$80K
Rochester, NY
$76K
Smithtown, NY
$52K
Selden, NY
$45K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

American Federation of Teachers4 shared recipientsNational Education Association of the3 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $9,931 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New York.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from New York State United Teachers's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 1 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 35 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 800 Troy Schenectady Road, Latham, NY, 12110.

EIN 14-1584772 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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