American Federation of Musicians Local 77
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 230343087
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Phone
- 2159854777
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,001,559
- Expenses
- $860,173
- Assets
- $1,978,618
- Liabilities
- $15,149
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ELLEN TRAINER (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ELLEN TRAINER (PRESIDENT): $92,478 total reported compensation
- JARRED ANTONACCI (SECT/TREAS): $80,261 total reported compensation
- MARJORIE GOLDBERG (VP/EXEC BOAR): $64,127 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 organization is a local labor union representing musicians in philadelphia county, and specified communities in bucks, Delaware, and montgomery counties in Pennsylvania and burlington and camden counties in New Jersey.
What it reported doing in 2025
Labor organization which negotiates and administers collective bargaining agreements which provide for wages and fringe benefits, along with proper working conditions, for its members.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 95% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 5
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.7%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 11
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14.1%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.3; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 30.6%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.8% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.7% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 6 board members independent · 1 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $860K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $92K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 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: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.