Brotherhood of Rail Road Signalmen Local 56
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 116035601
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Babylon, NY, USA
- Phone
- 6315870024
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Labor Unions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $858,071
- Expenses
- $1,014,746
- Assets
- $1,268,220
- Liabilities
- $39,051
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Michael Stewart (2nd Local Vice President)
- Ryan Burns (President)
- Christopher Rissland (1st Local Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Michael Sullivan (General Chairman): $76,939 total reported compensation
- James Sokolowski (Vice General Chairman): $23,725 total reported compensation
- Kevin Berthelsen-Leon (Trustee): $19,166 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Representation for Signalmen who work for the Long Island Rail Road in contract negotiations and all matters pertaining to the current bargaining agreement.
What it reported doing in 2025
Representational Services.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% 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: 90
- Accountability: 9
- Sustainability: 29
- 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: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 6th 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: -18.3%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.25; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.5%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.7% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 0 of 15 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $77K · 18 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 18 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 44/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 49/100.