Major League Baseball Umpires Association

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
912036368
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Neenah, WI, USA
Phone
9209691580
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Labor Unions

Reported finances

Revenue
$883,630
Expenses
$603,739
Assets
$1,751,139
Liabilities
$13,641

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • BILL MILLER (PRESIDENT (THRU FEB))
  • DAN BELLINO (PRESIDENT (BEG FEB)/VP (THRU FEB))

Highest reported compensation

  • PHILIP JANSSEN (ADMINISTRATOR): $142,850 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To secure by all means lawful and reasonable open and responsive collective bargaining representation for all persons who are employed as umpires by major league baseball. To effect that purpose, the association may engage in mutual aid and also sponsor, encourage and support, financially and otherwise, educational, legislative, political, civic and business projects or activities of, for or about professional baseball umpires.

What it reported doing in 2025

Major league baseball umpires association is the exclusive collective bargaining representative for all regular full-time major league umpires employed by the office of the commissioner of major league baseball. The bargaining unit currently consists of 76 umpires.major league baseball umpires association occasionally provides grants to charitable organizations in honor of current or former umpires or members of their families, or to assist retired umpires and their families who may have fallen on hard times.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 93% 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: 90
  • Accountability: 74
  • Sustainability: 70
  • 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; 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 31.7%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.9; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 23.7%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $143K · 12 people listed
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $367K reported
  • Consistency: 11 of 11 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.