Afscme Council #61
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 421080686
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Des Moines, IA, USA
- Phone
- 5152461517
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,053,576
- Expenses
- $2,153,937
- Assets
- $1,464,069
- Liabilities
- $810,536
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TODD COPLEY (PRESIDENT)
- LYLE CRONE (DISTRICT VICE PRESIDENT)
- RUTH THOMPSON (DISTRICT VICE PRESIDENT)
- JAMIE PARK (DISTRICT VICE PRESIDENT)
- SUSAN ROWE (DISTRICT VICE PRESIDENT)
- WADE BOOGERD (DISTRICT VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- TODD COPLEY (PRESIDENT): $171,022 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 mission of afscme council 61 is to provide a high quality of service to members by helping members bargain and enforce good collective bargaining contracts, by using expertise of members, staff and other professionals, and through ongoing training of afscme's members and employees.
What it reported doing in 2025
The union, through its staff representative employees, members and specialists resolves grievances on behalf of its members, many of which were referred to attorneys or other specialists for assistance in arbitration. The objective of pursuing these grievances include protecting workers jobs, improving the working condition of members and to ensure the contract terms are enforced. In addition, the union, through employees and member volunteers participated in organizing campaigns. Some of the campaigns resulted in new contracts, while others continue as ongoing campaigns. The objective of organizing campaigns are to increase member density to improve bargaining strength and expanding union membership into employers and organizations to improve working condition of people not yet covered by a union contract.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 74% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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: 70
- Accountability: 87
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 94.7%; rating input score 95; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.9%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.68; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.55; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.9%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -6.8% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -7.9% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -8.5% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 18 of 19 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $171K · 19 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 13 of 13 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 41/100.