International Federation of Professional & Technical Engineers
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 522172832
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2021, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2027501485
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,098,867
- Expenses
- $759,678
- Assets
- $598,251
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
46 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- AMY CHIN-LAI (PRESIDENT)
- VALERIA MEJIA-GUEVARA (VICE PRESIDENT)
- AMINA KRANSON (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JOHN ASPRAY (VICE PRESIDENT)
- HANNAH STEPHENS (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- HEATHER CUSHMAN (CAMPAIGNS DIRECTOR): $110,564 total reported compensation
- AMY CHIN-LAI (PRESIDENT): $1,200 total reported compensation
- SARAH RAWLINS (SECR. TREAS. - THRU 12/25): $1,200 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The objectives of the union, as the representative of its members, are to improve working conditions and living standards of members through collective bargaining, education, and training and to establish necessary procedures for the amicable adjustment of all disputes which may arise between employers and employees.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% 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: 90
- Accountability: 60
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- 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: 86.7%; rating input score 87; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 30.9%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.79; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.5%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 37.1% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 34.4% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 39 of 45 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $111K · 46 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 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.
- 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: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.