American Federation of Teachers 1839 New Jersey City University
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237063256
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Jersey City, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 2012002216
- Rating
- 43
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Labor Unions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $363,650
- Expenses
- $383,467
- Assets
- $544,282
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- WILLIAM CALATHES (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- WILLIAM CALATHES (PRESIDENT): $28,880 total reported compensation
- JOHN DONNELLAN (TREASURER): $10,830 total reported compensation
- BARBARA HILDNER (GRIEV. CH): $10,830 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 american federation of teachers- local 1839 (aft-local 1839) was founded in 1972 and represents the faculty, professional staff, librarians, a h moore faculty/ staff and adjunct faculty at New Jersey city university and is an affiliate local of the american federation of teachers and the afl-cio. The aft-local 1839 is a founding member and actively involved in all the activities of the council of New Jersey state college locals, participating in union negotiations in full-time/part-time agreements and the adjunct faculty agreements.
What it reported doing in 2024
The union negotiated the contracts and provides a mechanism for individual grievances for its members. The union organized campus wide demonstrations to call attention to the diminishing contributions of the state to higher education. The union provides funds for the scholarships.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 93% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 90
- Accountability: 68
- Sustainability: 39
- 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: 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: -5.4%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.42; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 25.9%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -10.8% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.2% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $29K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 10 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 11 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: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.