American Federation of Teachers Local 604
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 362910791
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2009
- Location
- Crest Hill, IL, USA
- Phone
- 8157250402
- Rating
- 26
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $7,412,342
- Expenses
- $7,495,191
- Assets
- $3,354,567
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
24 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- WILLIAM BRIGGS (PRESIDENT - PAST)
- DANIEL MERCER (PRESIDENT - NEW)
- JULIE HARRIS (VICE PRESIDENT - SECRETARY)
- KRISTEN RYAN (VICE PRESIDENT)
- BETH ANDERSON (VICE PRESIDENT)
- GERALD MESTEK (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- WILLIAM BRIGGS (PRESIDENT - PAST): $191,470 total reported compensation
- SEAN HUNT (TREASURER|BUSINESS MANAGER): $138,568 total reported compensation
- KIMBERLY ULLSMITH (FIELD SERVICE DIRECTOR): $112,891 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To bring school employees and other workers in the geographic area covered by local 604 into relations of mutual assistance and cooperation to promote the general welfare of the workers represented by local 604.
What it reported doing in 2024
Secure economic advantages for its membership through organization and collective bargaining and aid affiliates and workers to secure better working conditions on a non-discriminatory basis.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 100% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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
REVIEW - Revenue has grown recently. 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: 55
- Accountability: 23
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 60
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%; rating input score 90; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 18.5%; rating input score 19; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.1%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.45; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.1%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 17 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $191K · 24 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 11 of 13 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 24 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 19/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 33/100.