Labor and Working Class History Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 383445812
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 7732977458
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $127,599
- Expenses
- $112,521
- Assets
- $322,598
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
25 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Joseph McCartin (President)
- Eileen Bors (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Joseph McCartin (President)
- Eileen Bors (Vice President)
- Erik Gellman (Secretary)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
LAWCHA promotes the research and study of labor and working-class history through a biennial conference, an academic journal published by Duke University Press, awards research support for scholars and graduate students, a website featuring historical analysis of matters pertaining to labor history.
What it reported doing in 2025
We held our biennial conference at the University of Chicago in June 2025 with over 300 attendees in over 50 panels, plenaries, workshops and meetings. We gave out 30+ travel grants for participantsand $8630 total in juried awards for excellence in scholarship.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 68% for direct work, and 32% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and total assets are large relative to annual expenses, but may not be spendable cash. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 59
- Transparency & Controls: 85
- Sustainability: 65
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 55.1%; rating input score 55
- Program expense ratio: 66.2%; rating input score 66
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 81.8%; rating input score 82; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.8%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.87; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.6%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -31.5% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 55.1% of revenue deployed · 66.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $75K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 25 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 55/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.