International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers 117
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 361264212
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Crystal Lake, IL, USA
- Phone
- 8478547200
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,540,340
- Expenses
- $1,763,113
- Assets
- $3,182,868
- Liabilities
- $1,692
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JONATHAN NELSON (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JESSE LENART (BUS MGR/SECY): $304,923 total reported compensation
- JONATHAN NELSON (PRESIDENT): $250,454 total reported compensation
- CORY BAUER (VICE PRESIDE): $249,281 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 electrical industry workers in the 117 vicinity; to promote reasonable work methods; to cultivate friendship in the industry; and to seek a higher standard of living.
What it reported doing in 2025
Organized electrical industry workers in the 117 vicinity; promoted reasonable work methods, and cultivated friendship in the industry.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 82% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 85% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 67
- Accountability: 59
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 82.5%; rating input score 83
- 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: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 70%; rating input score 70; 18th 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: -14.5%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.81; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 45.7%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 20.3% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.3% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 95% of revenue deployed · 82.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 10 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $305K · 10 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay and related organizations
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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: Governance controls: 5 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.