Intl Brotherhood Electrical Workers Ibew Local 53
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 440525654
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Kansas City, MO, USA
- Phone
- 8164215464
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,740,028
- Expenses
- $5,861,182
- Assets
- $27,561,683
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
21 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- G Johnson (President)
- R Summers (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Benjamin Bush (Business Mgr): $220,051 total reported compensation
- Lisa Mead (Recording Sec): $198,560 total reported compensation
- MATTHEW DAY (BUSINESS AGENT): $197,426 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Negotiating Organization
What it reported doing in 2024
Provides a unified negatiating organization for its members and
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 92% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 71% for direct work, and 29% for affiliated organizations.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 42
- Sustainability: 68
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 78.8%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.7; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 31%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.3% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72% of revenue deployed · 78.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 8 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $5.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $220K · 21 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $264K reported
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 20 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.