American Postal Workers Union
Legal name: American Postal Workers Union Afl-cio
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 520913725
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2009
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2028424215
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $66,028,774
- Expenses
- $56,484,020
- Assets
- $180,923,721
- Liabilities
- $3,104,726
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
104 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARK DIMONDSTEIN (PRESIDENT TILL NOV. 2025)
- JONATHAN SMITH (PRESIDENT EFF. NOV. 2025)
- DEBORAH SZEREDY (EXECUTIVE VICE-PRESIDENT)
- STEPHEN DEMATTEO (EXEC ASST TO THE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- HANNAH DECKER (HR MNGR/EXEC ASST TO SEC-TREA): $221,245 total reported compensation
- MARK DIMONDSTEIN (PRESIDENT TILL NOV. 2025): $217,331 total reported compensation
- ELIZABETH POWELL (SECRETARY-TREASURER): $216,840 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 APWU represents postal workers and retirees, advocating for fair wages, safe workplaces, and the protection of the U.S. Postal Service as a public institution.
What it reported doing in 2025
Implementation of national collective bargaining agreement with us postal service for 300,000 members of bargaining unit, including negotiation & grievance arbitrary procedures. Organizing-union solicits voluntary membership from employees of usps & from private contractors providing services to usps.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 88% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 67
- Accountability: 14
- Sustainability: 69
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 3rd 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: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 60.2%; rating input score 60; 16th 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: 3 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 33
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14.5%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.2; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 25.4%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.1% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 8 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 0 of 13 board members independent · 3 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $221K · 104 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $5.8M reported
- Consistency: 10 of 11 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 116 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 18 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 9 not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.