Plumbers Local 3
Legal name: Denver Plumbers Home Building Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237416912
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Aurora, CO, US
- Phone
- 303-739-9300
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $810,750
- Expenses
- $345,349
- Assets
- $3,896,321
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANDY FRANK (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- SONNY WELCH (TREASURER): $232,815 total reported compensation
- JOE KOCOL (SECRETARY): $220,183 total reported compensation
- ANDY FRANK (PRESIDENT): $110,392 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Preserving, promoting, and protecting the welfare of all employees in the plumbing industry within our jurisdiction.
What it reported doing in 2024
To hold title and maintain real estate for denver unity local no. 3 of journeyman plumbers, gas fitters and apprentices (local 3).
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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: 60
- Accountability: 37
- Sustainability: 83
- 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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 40%; rating input score 40; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 33
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 57.4%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 11.28; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 48.7%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -150% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.7% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 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: 2 of 5 board members independent · 3 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $233K · 5 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 40/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 9 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.