Coalition of Labor Union Women
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237451023
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2028424211
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $297,024
- Expenses
- $345,751
- Assets
- $457,634
- Liabilities
- $16,101
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
22 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOANNE M SANDERS (EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT)
- CAROLYN A BURTON (NATIONAL VICE PRESIDENT)
- SYLVIA J RAMOS (NATIONAL VICE PRESIDENT)
- MICHELLE MCQUALITY (NATIONAL VICE PRESIDENT)
- DEMETRESS COLBERT (NATIONAL VICE PRESIDENT)
- RACHEL A WALTHALL (NATIONAL VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JANET HILL (CORRESPONDING SECRETARY)
- JOANNE M SANDERS (EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT)
- CAROLYN A BURTON (NATIONAL VICE PRESIDENT)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To serve as an entity where working women could share common problems and concerns and develop action programs within the framework of unions to deal effectively with these objectives.
What it reported doing in 2024
During 2023, cluw focused on helping our chapters perform their duties conducted elections, all online. In 2023 we held our latest national convention in Minnesota. Learning new techniques, having meetings via zoom, has allowed us to work more effectively towards our objectives, as outlined in the constitution.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 85% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- 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: 94
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 20
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; 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -16.4%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.32; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.2% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.1% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 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: 23 of 23 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $311K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 22 people listed
- Consistency: 11 of 11 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.