SEIU Local 517M
Legal name: Michigan Public Employees Seiu Local 517M
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 382601357
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Lansing, MI, US
- Phone
- (517) 482-1737
- Rating
- 34
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,911,534
- Expenses
- $2,873,067
- Assets
- $3,266,658
- Liabilities
- $155,074
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GREGORY MERRICLE (PRESIDENT/SE)
- JOEY COMBS (PRESIDENT (P)
Highest reported compensation
- CLAIRE CORR (EXECUTIVE DI): $41,951 total reported compensation
- JANICE COSEY (DIVISION VP): $7,758 total reported compensation
- RODERICK JACKSON (DIVISION VP): $3,300 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We exist to make an impact – serving our communities, our state, and our people. We are diverse in voice and in profession. What unites us is a deep care for our work and the people we serve.
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization secured improved wages, hours and working conditions for its members through negotiations and collective bargaining.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 96% 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
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 90
- Accountability: 18
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
- 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: 7.7%; rating input score 8; 8th 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: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.3%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.14; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.7%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -3% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 1 of 13 board members independent · 3 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $42K · 17 people listed
- Consistency: 14 of 15 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 16 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 8/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 9 not reported.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.