Border Workers United
Overview
Mission
A community-based organization that builds leadership to develop a movement for labor and justice in Texas border communities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 813709604
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2021
- Headquarters
- El Paso, TX, USA
- Phone
- 9567557385
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 39
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 72
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 26%; rating input score 26
- Program expense ratio: 53%; rating input score 53
- Fundraising efficiency: $26.99 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 51%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.28; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.9%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 20.6% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22.1% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 26% of revenue deployed · 53% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $273K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $82K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 7 annual filings from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Maria Lupita G Sanchez (Executive Dir.): $82,047 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: FY2025.