International Brotherhood of 141- Ibew
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 550201589
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Wheeling, WV, USA
- Phone
- 3042423870
- Rating
- 38
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,253,783
- Expenses
- $1,322,400
- Assets
- $3,695,240
- Liabilities
- $87,523
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DAVID CANTRELL (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- GLEN GIFFIN (BUSINESS MAN): $167,587 total reported compensation
- DANIEL MORRIS (ORGANIZER): $127,664 total reported compensation
- DAVID CANTRELL (PRESIDENT): $22,787 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 provide safe working conditions for all union members working in the jurisdiction of local 141, and also to unionize other employees so they may be provided with all the rights and privleges that come with union membership
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 69% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - 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 a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 60
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5.5%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.79; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 24.4%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -76.7% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -8.9% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 367 of 367 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $168K · 4 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 52/100.