International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 620514370
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Oak Ridge, TN, USA
- Phone
- 8654831354
- Rating
- 61
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,496,502
- Expenses
- $1,861,335
- Assets
- $13,382,020
- Liabilities
- $280,603
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JAMES FRESHOUR JR (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- DANIEL SMITH (BUSINESS MAN): $140,795 total reported compensation
- DAVID WILLIAMSON (TREASURER): $120,682 total reported compensation
- DAVID GARCIA (MEMBERSHIP D): $120,681 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Electrical workers 270 was charted on july 1, 1952. We aim: to pursue and establish and maintain an adequate wage for our labor. To require of our members skill, intelligence and character. To protect our employers against the unskilled and inexperienced worker. To advance the principles of conciliation and arbitration in the settlement of any difference with our employers. To defend our rights and advance our interests as electrical workers by all lawful means. To aid and encourage all honorable efforts that will better the conditions of labor. To make our card and seal a certificate of fraternity, honesty, efficiency and reliability.
What it reported doing in 2025
To provide members benefits as outlined directly in our exempt purpose.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- Affiliate network. The nonprofit sent 80% of its reported program spending through affiliated organizations.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - 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: 17
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 79
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 14.8%; rating input score 15
- Program expense ratio: 26.6%; rating input score 27
- 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: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 58.6%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.19; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 20.5%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.3% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 22.4% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.1% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 14.8% of revenue deployed · 26.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 825 of 825 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $494K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $141K · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes related organizations
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 15/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 27/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.