American Postal Workers Union
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237338432
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Lehigh Valley, PA, USA
- Phone
- 6108823278
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $250,100
- Expenses
- $248,221
- Assets
- $306,934
- Liabilities
- $67
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANDREW KUBAT (PRESIDENT)
- MATTHEW DOCK (EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- CHAD BEER (CLERK CRAFT DIRECTOR): $15,568 total reported compensation
- ANDREW KUBAT (PRESIDENT): $12,912 total reported compensation
- FAITH BENNER (TREASURER): $11,692 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Negotiate collective bargaining agreement (local memorandum of understanding) and implement same through arbitration and the grievance procedure; organize; educate; attend conferences and convention; annual social events
What it reported doing in 2025
Negotiate collective bargaining agreement. Grievances were investigated and filed. Officer travel to assist grievances
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 93% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 68
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.3%; rating input score 99
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- 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; 64th 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: 1.24; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 29.6%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 38.3% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 99.3% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $248K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $16K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 12 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 53/100.