International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 530215427
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Washington, D.C., USA
- Phone
- 2026246800
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $223,777,901
- Expenses
- $198,584,884
- Assets
- $609,348,755
- Liabilities
- $30,646,531
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
54 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SEAN O'BRIEN (GENERAL PRESIDENT)
- WILLIAM HAMILTON (VICE PRESIDENT - EASTERN R)
- STANLEY J HENNESSY (VICE PRESIDENT - CANADA)
- CRAIG MCINNES (VICE PRESIDENT - CANADA)
- FRANCOIS LAPORTE (VICE PRESIDENT - CANADA)
- JAMES AVRAL THOMPSON (VICE PRESIDENT - CENTRAL R)
Highest reported compensation
- CHRIS GRISWOLD (IBT AT-LARGE VICE - PRESID): $546,426 total reported compensation
- SEAN O'BRIEN (GENERAL PRESIDENT): $471,455 total reported compensation
- GREGORY FLOYD (IBT AT LARGE VICE PRESIDEN): $435,258 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is dedicated to organizing and representing workers to secure fair wages, benefits, and safe working conditions, and to advancing the interests of working families through collective bargaining and political action.
What it reported doing in 2024
International brotherhood of teamsters-to organize all workers and secure improved wages, hours, working conditions & other advantages through organizing & collective bargaining.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 92% 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: 62
- Accountability: 32
- Sustainability: 69
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Limited
- Conducts field audits: Limited
- May suspend future funding: Limited
- Requires financial reports: Limited
- Conducts site visits: Limited
- Requires grant agreements: Limited
- May require repayment: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.3%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.07; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.5%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 0 of 27 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $546K · 54 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $7.2M reported
- Consistency: 14 of 15 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 78 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 35 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.
- 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.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.