Mechanical Industry Labor Fund

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
921158130
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Fort Wayne, IN, USA
Phone
2604905693
Rating
40
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues

Reported finances

Revenue
$84,033
Expenses
$959
Assets
$221,526

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Kent Prosser (Chair)
  • Bill Meyer (Management Trustee)
  • Curt Mirwaldt (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

A. Improving communication between representatives of labor and management b. Providing employees and Employers with opportunities to study and explore new and innovative joint approaches to achieving organizational effectiveness c. Assisting Employees and Employers in solving problems of mutual concern not susceptible to resolution within the collective bargaining process d. Studying, exploring, and implementing ways of eliminating potential problems which reduce the competitiveness and inhibit the economic development of the Pipe Trades Industry. e. Sponsoring programs which improve job security, enhance economic and community development, and promote the general welfare of the community. f.Expanding and improving working relationships between Employees and Employers. g. Encouraging free collective bargaining by establishing continuing mechanisms for communication between Employees and their Employers through the formation and operation of a labor management committee.

What it reported doing in 2025

Negotiation of Collective Bargaining and subsequent labor advancement meetings.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 83
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 98.9%; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 231; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 9.2% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 46.2% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.