SPFPA Local 1955
Legal name: Amalgamated Spfpa Local Union No 1955 - Iesa
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 873272058
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Roseville, MI, USA
- Phone
- (714) 782-0303
- Rating
- 59
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $181,131
- Expenses
- $80,780
- Assets
- $1,009,272
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRENDA ALFARO (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- PATRICK LEMOS (VICE PRESIDE): $4,095 total reported compensation
- BRENDA ALFARO (PRESIDENT): $3,959 total reported compensation
- ELSYE AYALA (RECORDING SE): $2,905 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The International Union continues to protect and advance the interests of security professionals through collective bargaining, legislation, and litigation.
What it reported doing in 2024
Representation of union membership (collective bargaining, negotiations, grievances, etc..); approximately 1509 members
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 58
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 9
- Sustainability: 82
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 44.1%; rating input score 44
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 7th 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: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 55.4%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 12.49; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 21.1%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.3% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.9% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 44.1% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 8 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $4K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 11 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 44/100.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.