Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237299601
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Oakland, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5107631555
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,867,796
- Expenses
- $1,495,077
- Assets
- $3,970,785
- Liabilities
- $1,162,336
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JESSE HUNT (PRESIDENT)
- EDWARD REEL (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- NANCY RODRIGUEZ (OFFICE MANAGER): $125,001 total reported compensation
- JESSE HUNT (PRESIDENT): $72,487 total reported compensation
- JACOB LILJA (FINANCIAL SECRETARY): $24,530 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Organized for the improvement of wages, hours and conditions of employment for members and their families: promotion of public information and awareness.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 97% 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: 80
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 83.5%; rating input score 83; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 77.8%; rating input score 78; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 20%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.66; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.29; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 16.1%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.3% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 7 of 9 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $125K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 10 of 11 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 12 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 9 not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.