Bakery Confectionery Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Intn'l Union Local 19
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 340082405
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Cleveland, OH, USA
- Phone
- 2167715386
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,770,599
- Expenses
- $2,950,004
- Assets
- $4,311,223
- Liabilities
- $855,707
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
92 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- EDWARD THOMAS (VICE PRESIDENT/BUSINESS AG)
- PAUL LABUDA (PRESIDENT/BUSINESS AGENT)
Highest reported compensation
- PHIL LUKIC (FINANCIAL SECRETARY/BA): $174,777 total reported compensation
- JAMES R FRANKLIN SR (TREASURER/BUSINESS AGENT): $157,799 total reported compensation
- STAN P LABUDA (RECORDING SECRETARY/BA): $150,413 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Local 19 exists to promote the economic and social welfare of all workers in the baking, confectionery, tobacco, grain milling, and kindred industries by effective organizational action; progressive improvement in living standards through the reduction of the hours of labor, increased wages, and retirement and welfare benefits; aid in securing and retaining employment; and promotion of the interests of labor unions.
What it reported doing in 2025
To perform the general functions of a labor union relative to the representation of its members including collective bargaining, negotiations, and the processing of grievances.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 97% 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: 71
- Accountability: 67
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 23rd 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: -6.5%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.46; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.2; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 31.9%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 84 of 91 board members independent · 3 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $175K · 92 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 13 of 13 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 28 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 5 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.