Ibew Local Union 716
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 740706098
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Houston, TX, USA
- Phone
- 7138698900
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $8,217,031
- Expenses
- $6,922,177
- Assets
- $10,144,543
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
28 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARK LANDRUM (PRESIDENT)
- RODNEY MITCH MAYON (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- STEPHEN GONZALES (BUS, MGR/FIN): $122,058 total reported compensation
- JOE S LUCE (VICE PRESIDE): $100,787 total reported compensation
- RODNEY MITCH MAYON (PRESIDENT): $100,787 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To organize all workers in the entire electrical industry in the united states and canada, including all those in public utilities and electrical manufacturing, into local unions, reasonable methods of work; to cultivate feelings of friendship among those of our industry; to settle all disputes between employers and employees by arbitration (if possible); to assist each other in sickness or distress; to secure employment; to reduce the hours of daily labor; to secure adequate pay for our work; to seek a higher and higher standard of living; to seek security for the individual; and by legal and proper means to elevate the moral, intellectual and social conditions of our members, their families and dependents, in the interest of a higher standard of citizenship.
What it reported doing in 2025
To promote organized electrical workers in the houston and surrounding areas. Promoted reasonable methods of work through interaction with and intervention between members and contractors to settle work standard complaints, promoted the high standards of union work through interaction with contractors and non-members, provided targeted job incentives to contractors to promote the hiring of members, and promoted high standard of living for members by negotiating salary and benefit rights in an organized and timely manner.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 95% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 71% for direct work, 0% for grants, 29% for affiliated organizations, and 0% for member benefits.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 18
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.3%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- 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: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15.8%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.47; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.4%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 75% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.3% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 5 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $122K · 28 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 20 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 43/100.