Afl-cio Philadelphia Council
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 231580308
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Phone
- 2156659800
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,146,547
- Expenses
- $1,323,852
- Assets
- $198,335
- Liabilities
- $376,233
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
47 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DANIEL BAUDER (PRESIDENT)
- ESTEBAN VERA JR (VICE PRESIDENT/BOARD MEMBE)
- JOHN ASH (VICE PRESIDENT)
- MICHAEL BARNES (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JOSEPH BASELICE (VICE PRESIDENT)
- RYAN BOYER (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- DANIEL BAUDER (PRESIDENT): $168,135 total reported compensation
- THELMA CLEMENTS (BOARD MEMBER): $120,143 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The objects of philadelphia council, afl-cio (the council) shall be to promote, through appropriate activities in the geographical area covered by the charter of the council, the principles of the american federation of labor and congress of industrial organizations, including: to assist in furthering the appropriate objects and policies of the afl-cio or organizations affiliated with the afl-cio; to serve as a means of exchanging information among affiliated bodies on matters of common interest; to provide aid, cooperation and assistance to affiliated local unions and other affiliated bodies in their common and individual endeavors.
What it reported doing in 2025
Afl-cio philadelphia council provides education and training to its members, in support of realizing its organizational goals and exempt purpose.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 52
- Accountability: 65
- Sustainability: 8
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 17.9%; rating input score 18; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 95.6%; rating input score 96; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -15.5%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.15; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.9; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 21.8%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.5% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 43 of 45 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $168K · 47 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 13 of 14 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 9 not reported.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.