Chester Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237094446
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Boothwyn, PA, USA
- Phone
- 6104942820
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $548,360
- Expenses
- $410,087
- Assets
- $1,184,926
- Liabilities
- $337,113
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- J BRIAN KELLY (CHAIRMAN/PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- J BRIAN KELLY (CHAIRMAN/PRESIDENT): $277,172 total reported compensation
- FRED RIES (TRUSTEE): $4,625 total reported compensation
- DERRICK DINKINS (TRUSTEE): $3,430 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Training of apprentices and journeymen for the electrical construction industry.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 90% 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: 65
- Accountability: 50
- Sustainability: 62
- 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: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 50%; rating input score 50; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 25.2%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.89; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.28; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 30.2%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 3 of 6 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $277K · 7 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 13 of 13 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 50/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.