Amalgamated Transit Union Local No 1287
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 440467585
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Kansas City, MO, US
- Phone
- 816-361-8400
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $495,632
- Expenses
- $491,817
- Assets
- $393,695
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- NICHOLAS E MILLER (PRESIDENT/BUSINESS AGENT)
- JOHN WILSON (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- NICHOLAS E MILLER (PRESIDENT/BUSINESS AGENT): $105,361 total reported compensation
- SHERRITA L JACKSON (FINANCIAL SECRETARY/TREASURER): $100,590 total reported compensation
- JERMAL WORD (EXECUTIVE BOARD): $5,454 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 objectives of the union, as the representative of its members, are to improve working conditions and living standards of members through collective bargaining, education, training, and to establish necessary procedures for the amicable adjustment of all disputes which may arise between employers and employees.
ATU Local 1287 is a labor union representing transit workers in the Kansas City area. It negotiates and enforces collective bargaining agreements, handles grievances and arbitrations, and provides pension estimation tools for its members. The union is affiliated with the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) and serves members employed by transit agencies such as KCATA and JOCO.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% 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: 90
- Accountability: 48
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 80
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; 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: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 21st 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.8%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.8; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 43%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 24.2% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.4% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 6 of 9 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $105K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.