Labor 411 Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 800832177
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- North Hollywood, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8188848966
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $58,334
- Expenses
- $40,615
- Assets
- $94,242
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
People named in this filing
- CHERRI SENDERS (CO-CHAIR)
- DANIEL CARDOZO (CO-CHAIR)
- CHRIS BLASS (SECRETARY/TREASURER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of the labor 411 foundation is to advocate for the creation and protection of good jobs through consumer activism. We believe that by spending our dollars ethically, with companies which treat their workers well, we create stronger communities and a thriving middle class. The foundation promotes its goals through research, education and advocacy and works to advance an ethical consumer movement (ecm) to build a stronger economy for all.
What it reported doing in 2024
As an educational organization that promotes the value of union membership, the labor 411 foundation hosts various educational events during the year, such as union night at unionized dodger stadium and the labor day parade, tables at community events, and continue our buy your values ucla campaign where we work with university students, regularly table at union events featuring our union directory along with a door prize of a union product, including 12x a year at the la county federation of labor which features 250 union delegates, and dodgers union night which mobilized 12,000 union members at dodgers union night in sept 2024. Supported our union brothers and sisters during strikes and rallies. Buy your values, ucla working with the ucla labor center, garment workers center, ucla students, atholic ethical purchasing alliance, sweatfree 2.0 and other organizations to get ethically sourced apparel (union made and sustainable) onto college campuses and in other government orgs. We have created multiple websites, created ethical manufacturing standards and done campus presentations to faculty, student classrooms and student groups, www.a-ramp.org, www.buyyourvaluesucla.org & www.labor411foundation.org, monthly union barbeques for la fed delegates to demonstrate how easy it is to bbq union, boothing at dozens of community events to share our directory and union-made collateral.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 73
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 66.2%; rating input score 66
- Program expense ratio: 95%; rating input score 95
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 30.4%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.32; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -19.3% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -17.5% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.8% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 66.2% of revenue deployed · 95% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $39K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.