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U.S. credit unions can be chartered by either the federal government ("federal credit unions") or by a state. You can find the closest credit union location by ZIP code or address. 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. Modern credit union history dates to 1852 when Franz Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch consolidated the learning from two pilot projects one in Eilenburg and the other in Delitzsch in Germany into what are generally recognized as the first credit unions in the world. In the United States as of 2005 credit unions have 86 million members which is 43% of the economically active population. U.S. credit unions are not-for-profit cooperative tax-exempt organizations.