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Credit Unions often form cooperatives among themselves to provide services to members. A Credit Union Service Organization (CUSO) is generally a for-profit subsidiary of one or more credit unions formed for this purpose U.S. credit unions can be chartered by either the federal government ("federal credit unions") or by a state. Until the mid XX century credit unions in the United States had little assets that do not exceed as a rule 100 thousand dollars. All credit union locations also can be found via Google Maps. The largest corporate credit union in the United States is U.S. Central Credit Union of Lenexa Kansas which serves as a central clearing house for other corporate credit unions and holds approximately $45.3 billion in assets. As of October 2011 the largest American credit union was Navy Federal Credit Union serving U.S. Department of Defense employees contractors and families of servicepeople with over $45 billion USD in assets and over 3.4 million members.