American Postal Workers Union

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 952791957
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2017–2025
Forms available: Form 990-EZ 2025
Location: Bakersfield, CA, USA
Phone: 0000000000
Rating: 38
Verdict: REVIEW
Rating confidence: Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue: $179,963
Expenses: $178,581
Assets: $143,337
Liabilities: $0

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

Brendan Buettner (President)
Vincent Avila (Vice President)

People named in this filing

Brendan Buettner (President)
Vincent Avila (Vice President)
Alfredo Velasco (Treasurer)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

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

Overview

Mission

We are a labor union for the maintenance and clerk division in our area

What it reported doing in 2025

Operating model

Revenue model: Membership-supported. 100% 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 and 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: 82
Sustainability: 41
Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

Operating margin: 0.8%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.8; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Officer compensation ratio: 24%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: Limited
Revenue growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
Schedules: 1 filed schedules
Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 to 2025
Contacts: How to reach this organization
Money network: 8 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 33/100.
Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.
High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.