Heights Auto Workers Credit Union
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 362419943
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Burnham, IL, USA
- Phone
- 7088916990
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Credit Unions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,893,282
- Expenses
- $1,936,669
- Assets
- $28,972,158
- Liabilities
- $22,933,011
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Vicki Kaiser (Former Manager): $70,460 total reported compensation
- Yesenia R Chavez (Manager): $57,090 total reported compensation
- Terrie L Dust (Chairman): $38,834 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 give members the ability to control their financial destiny by providing members with the means to satisfy their needs for financial services in a comfortable family-like environment. In doing so, the Credit Union strives to maintain long-term relationships with members.
What it reported doing in 2024
Credit Union pays dividends to its members on share deposit accounts at a market rate of interest. Total number of share accounts at 12/31/24 was 6,985 in the amount of $22,873,936.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 72% 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: 76
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 40
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: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2.3%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 14.96; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.79; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.6%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 6 of 7 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $70K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 10 of 10 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 41/100.