International Longshoremen's Association
Legal name: International Longshoremens Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 136400405
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- North Bergen, NJ, USA
- Phone
- (212) 425-1200
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $32,600,442
- Expenses
- $29,572,847
- Assets
- $100,971,731
- Liabilities
- $10,190,561
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
34 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- HAROLD J DAGGETT (PRESIDENT)
- WILBERT ROWELL (VICE PRESIDENT)
- DENNIS A DAGGETT (VICE PRESIDENT)
- ALAN ROBB (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JOHN BAKER (VICE PRESIDENT)
- VIRGILIO MALDONADO (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- HAROLD J DAGGETT (PRESIDENT): $996,052 total reported compensation
- STEPHEN KNOTT (TREASURER): $975,731 total reported compensation
- WILBERT ROWELL (VICE PRESIDENT): $863,309 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 Longshoremen's Association is the largest union of maritime workers in North America, representing upwards of 85,000 longshoremen on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts, Great Lakes, major U.S. rivers, Puerto Rico and Eastern Canada, and the Bahamas.
What it reported doing in 2024
To promote the best interests of its members and their families
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 92% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- 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: 39
- Accountability: 9
- Sustainability: 63
- 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; 62nd 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: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 3rd 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.3%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.41; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 37.4%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -15.8% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.8% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 0 of 30 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $996K · 34 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $5M reported
- Consistency: 13 of 13 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes foreign activity and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 34 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 9 not reported.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.