COALITION OF BLACK TRADE UNIONISTS

EIN 52-1128179 WASHINGTON, DC

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Revenue 2024: $1,345,404
Expenses 2024: $1,326,076

As filed

Subsection: 05
Classification: 3000
Street: 1155 CONNECTICUT AVENUE NW SUITE 50

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

CBTU SEEKS TO ORGANIZE WORKERS, SUPPORT CIVIL RIGHTS INITIATIVES AND IMPROVE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR BLACK WORKERS. CBTU WORKS WITH CIVIC GROUPS TO IMPROVE LIVING AND WORKING CONDITIONS AND TO PROVIDE A VOICE FOR MINORITIES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE INTERNATIONAL COALITION OF BLACK TRADE UNIONISTS (CBTU) IS AN ORGANIZATION COMPRISED OF MEMBERS FROM SEVENTY-SEVEN INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL UNIONS WITH FORTY-TWO CHAPTERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY. CBTU SEEKS TO ORGANIZE WORKERS, SUPPORT CIVIL RIGHTS INITIATIVES AND IMPROVE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR BLACK WORKERS. CBTU WORKS WITH CIVIC GROUPS TO IMPROVE LIVING AND WORKING CONDITIONS AND TO PROVIDE A VOICE FOR MINORITIES.

CBTU SEEKS TO ORGANIZE WORKERS, SUPPORT CIVIL RIGHTS INITIATIVES AND IMPROVE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR BLACK WORKERS. CBTU WORKS WITH CIVIC GROUPS TO IMPROVE LIVING AND WORKING CONDITIONS AND TO PROVIDE A VOICE FOR MINORITIES. ANNUALLY CBTU PUTS ON AN INFORMATIONAL CONVENTION THAT IS OPEN TO MEMBERS AND OTHERS.

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

Claude CummingsjrCLAUDE CUMMINGSJR

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
George GreshamGEORGE GRESHAM

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Dr Loretta JohnsonDR LORETTA JOHNSON

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Ken RileyKEN RILEY

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Shanna PeeksSHANNA PEEKS

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Elizabeth PowellELIZABETH POWELL

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Becky PringleBECKY PRINGLE

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Keith RichardsonKEITH RICHARDSON

TRUSTEE (P)

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Kenneth RigmaidenKENNETH RIGMAIDEN

TRUSTEE (P)

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Fred RedmondFRED REDMOND

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Rev Terrence MelvinREV TERRENCE MELVIN

PRESIDENT

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

15
Anthony HarmonANTHONY HARMON

EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Clayola BrownCLAYOLA BROWN

FIRST VICE PRESIDENT

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Lew MoyeLEW MOYE

SECOND VICE PRESIDENT

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Yolanda McCleanYOLANDA MCCLEAN

THIRD VICE PRESIDENT

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Faith MorrisFAITH MORRIS

TREASURER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

15
Cherika CarterCHERIKA CARTER

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Mamie PrattMAMIE PRATT

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY (P)

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Wayne BlanchardWAYNE BLANCHARD

RECORDING SECRETARY

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

2024

Revenue

$1,345,404

Expenses

$1,326,076

Contributions

$1,066,587

Grants paid

$2,853
2023

Revenue

$1,257,568

Expenses

$1,107,330

Contributions

$612,724

Grants paid

$2,660
2022

Revenue

$841,422

Expenses

$870,250

Contributions

$488,988

Grants paid

$1,329

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2024	$1,345,404	$1,326,076	$1,066,587	$2,853
2023	$1,257,568	$1,107,330	$612,724	$2,660
2022	$841,422	$870,250	$488,988	$1,329

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

2021 · 990

Revenue

$434,673

Expenses

$564,383

Assets (EOY)

$213,505
2020 · 990

Revenue

$526,615

Expenses

$560,182

Assets (EOY)

$378,735
2019 · 990

Revenue

$758,309

Expenses

$748,657

Assets (EOY)

$386,383
2018 · 990

Revenue

$1,272,521

Expenses

$1,126,694

Assets (EOY)

$310,138
2017 · 990

Revenue

$889,113

Expenses

$860,120

Assets (EOY)

$211,082
2016 · 990

Revenue

$1,118,062

Expenses

$1,032,433

Assets (EOY)

$238,435
2015 · 990

Revenue

$715,703

Expenses

$712,016

Assets (EOY)

$177,393
2014 · 990

Revenue

$811,720

Expenses

$732,955

Assets (EOY)

$171,954

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2021	990	$434,673	$564,383	$213,505
2020	990	$526,615	$560,182	$378,735
2019	990	$758,309	$748,657	$386,383
2018	990	$1,272,521	$1,126,694	$310,138
2017	990	$889,113	$860,120	$211,082
2016	990	$1,118,062	$1,032,433	$238,435
2015	990	$715,703	$712,016	$177,393
2014	990	$811,720	$732,955	$171,954

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR & CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGS

$118,000

2023 OPERATING SUBSIDY, GENERAL CONTRIBUTION
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR & CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGS

$113,000

2022 OPERATING SUBSIDY
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR & CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGS

$113,000

2024 OPERATING SUBSIDY
COMMUNICATIONS WORKERS OF AMERICA AFL-CIO CLC

$64,190

2023 GENERAL SUPPORT
AMALGAMATED TRANSIT UNION

$27,000

2023 GENERAL SUPPORT
NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES

$25,000

2022 FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
NATIONAL NURSES UNITED

$25,000

2022 TO ASSIST ORGANIZATION
CALIFORNIA NURSES ASSOCIATION

$25,000

2024 To assist organization
CALIFORNIA NURSES ASSOCIATION

$21,500

2023 To assist organization
UNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIAL WORKERS INTERNATIONAL UNION

$20,000

2024 GENERAL SUPPORT

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

CBTU- EDUCATION CENTER

501C · COMMUNITY EDUCATION · DC

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Not present in the most recent drop.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.