Louisiana Afl - Cio
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 720487456
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Baton Rouge, LA, USA
- Phone
- 2253835741
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Labor Unions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $947,448
- Expenses
- $791,525
- Assets
- $1,370,329
- Liabilities
- $1,116,370
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
42 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ROBERT HAMMOND (1ST VICE PRESIDENT)
- MATT WOOD (PRESIDENT)
- SIBAL HOLT (PRESIDENT EMERITUS)
Highest reported compensation
- LOUIS S REINE (SECRETARY/TREASURER): $71,250 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
A. Public relations among members and the general public in furtherance of the general welfare of labor, including the following: 1. To aid workers in securing and maintaining improved wages, hours, and working conditions with due regard for the autonomy and integrity of affiliated unions or central bodies. 2. To aid and assist affiliated unions in extending the benefits of mutual assistance and collective bargaining to workers and to promote the organization of the unorganized into unions of their own choosing for their mutual aid, protection, and advancement, giving recognition to the principle that both craft and industrial unions are appropriate, equal, and necessary as methods of union organization. 3. To encourage all workers without regard to race, creed, color, or national origin to share in the full benefits of union organization. 4. Working with civic, public, religious, and governmental bodies.b. Political education c. Legislative activities
What it reported doing in 2025
Legislative activities: to sponsor and promote legislation that benefits union members in the state of Louisiana to improve workplace safety, disability and unemployment insurance and use of union labor in all crafts.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 79% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- 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
SUPPORTED - 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 liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 97
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 83.7%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 95.2%; rating input score 95; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 16.5%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.73; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.81; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.1% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 70% of revenue deployed · 83.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 40 of 42 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $662K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $71K · 42 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 40/100.