Maryland State & DC AFL-CIO
Legal name: Maryland State and Dc Afl-cio
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 520691752
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Annapolis, MD, US
- Phone
- (410) 280-2233
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $990,758
- Expenses
- $741,067
- Assets
- $2,859,157
- Liabilities
- $21,791
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
50 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DONNA EDWARDS (PRESIDENT)
- MONIQUE ALEXANDER (VICE PRESIDENT)
- ANITA MARCEL AUTREY (VICE PRESIDENT)
- DENA BRISCOE (VICE PRESIDENT)
- KENYA CAMPBELL (VICE PRESIDENT)
- RICK COMPHER (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- DONNA EDWARDS (PRESIDENT): $155,017 total reported compensation
- GERALD JACKSON (FORMER SECRETARY-TREASURER): $12,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To advance the interests of working people in Maryland and Washington, D.C., through collective bargaining, political advocacy, and legislative action.
What it reported doing in 2024
To represent workers in the state of Maryland and district of columbia in securing fair wages, benefits and working conditions. The organization represents approximately 500 local labor unions in the region.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 97% 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: 55
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 71
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 96%; rating input score 96; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 25.2%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.86; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 22.5%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 48 of 50 board members independent · 3 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $155K · 50 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 12 of 13 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 9 not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.