Berwyn Firefighters Assoc Union 506
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 510226973
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Berwyn, IL, USA
- Phone
- 6303989543
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $174,581
- Expenses
- $141,378
- Assets
- $539,876
- Liabilities
- $8,476
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MICHAEL LAURETO (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- FRANK BONADONNA (VICE PRESIDE): $2,451 total reported compensation
- BRIAN MARQUARDT (TREASURER): $2,451 total reported compensation
- FRED BAZALDUA (TRUSTEE): $2,102 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Union labor activities for local government fire department workers.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 71% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 43
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76.6%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 90.5%; rating input score 90
- 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: 42.9%; rating input score 43; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 19%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.82; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.4%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 47.5% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.2% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 76.6% of revenue deployed · 90.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 7 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $2K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 43/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 27/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.