Line Construction Benefit Fund
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 366066988
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Lombard, IL, USA
- Phone
- 8003237268
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,386,911,518
- Expenses
- $1,216,871,560
- Assets
- $2,163,604,586
- Liabilities
- $21,766,485
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
26 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KEVIN CHESNIAK (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- KEVIN CHESNIAK (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $585,482 total reported compensation
- TRAVIS ERI (TRUSTEE - CHAIRMAN): $334,803 total reported compensation
- ROBERT REILLY (TRUSTEE): $282,881 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provide health and welfare benefits for eligible members.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 98% 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: 71
- Accountability: 66
- Sustainability: 69
- 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; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Pass
- 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: 50%; rating input score 50; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- 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: 12.3%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.78; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.2%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 9 of 18 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $585K · 26 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $42M reported
- Consistency: 13 of 13 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 50/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Whistleblower policy not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.