American Federation of Government Employees

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
386158175
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Warren, MI, USA
Phone
5867641574
Rating
31
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$268,455
Expenses
$243,905
Assets
$93,674
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

16 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Zedrick Brown (President)
  • Gregory Polcyn (Executive Vice President)
  • Mary Lee (Area Vice President)
  • Lori Finchem (Area Vice President)
  • Andrew Delorey (Area Vice President)
  • Matthew Holtyn (Area Vice President)

Highest reported compensation

  • Zedrick Brown (President): $5,768 total reported compensation
  • Patrick Dolan (Treasurer): $5,000 total reported compensation
  • Gregory Polcyn (Executive Vice President): $3,896 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

AFGE Local 1658 represents federal employees that are in Certified Bargaining Units BU by employing formal and informal procedures to ensure that all employees are treated fairly and equitably. Local 1658 negotiates comprehensive Labor-Management Agreements and other Memorandum of Agreements on behalf of BU employees. Local 1658 lobbies Congress and Executive Branch Agencies on issues that affect federal employees.

What it reported doing in 2025

AFGE Local 1658 pursues aggressive Legislative Action on behalf of employees that we represent. The Local had Representatives attend the annual AFGE Legislative Conference in Washington D.C. where we met with all Michigan Members in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. There we presented the Locals position on numerous issues that are critical to federal employees such as pay job security working conditions and Union Rights. Local 1658 Representatives made frequent follow-up visits and calls to our Congressional Representatives and Senators in Michigan to fight the current administrations executive order to eliminate collectiive bargaining in the DoD

Operating model

Revenue model
Membership-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
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

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 87
  • Accountability: 14
  • Sustainability: 43
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • 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: 9.1%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.38; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 18.6%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -17.4% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -11.5% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 0 of 14 board members independent · 3 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $6K · 16 people listed
  • Consistency: 40 of 42 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes grants
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 16 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX GrantsToDomesticIndividuals column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.