Communications Workers of America #6143
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 741163458
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Antonio, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2102246143
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,215,777
- Expenses
- $1,023,901
- Assets
- $1,146,124
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Christopher Morales (President)
- Jeremy Garcia (Vice President)
- JoAngela Herrera-Barroso (Vice President)
- Jesse Espinosa (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Jesse Espinosa (Vice President): $40,052 total reported compensation
- Jeremy Garcia (Vice President): $39,843 total reported compensation
- Tarea Smith (Secretary/Treasurer): $38,851 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To improve working conditions for the membership.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 69% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- Affiliate network. The nonprofit sent 67% of its reported program spending through affiliated organizations.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 48
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 86
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 50.6%; rating input score 51
- Program expense ratio: 59.8%; rating input score 60
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 81.8%; rating input score 82; 1st 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 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15.8%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.12; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: -15.3% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.7% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 50.6% of revenue deployed · 59.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $40K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 27 current checks pass · 3 findings to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 51/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D expense reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D land buildings reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D revenue reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.