National Association of Letter Carriers

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
416030483
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Duluth, MN, USA
Phone
2184619715
Rating
37
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$74,559
Expenses
$86,150
Assets
$67,963
Liabilities
$180

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

Leadership & pay

17 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • TJ Lydon (President and Chief Steward)
  • Linda Johnson (Vice President and Steward)

People named in this filing

  • TJ Lydon (President and Chief Steward)
  • Linda Johnson (Vice President and Steward)
  • Erin Rode (Recording 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

We exist to represent our members when it comes to resolving disputes with management involving wages, benefits or working conditions, especially in filing grievances related to management's contractual violations, representing carriers in discipline proceedings, and enforcing safety standards. Over 1100 grievances were filed in 2025 representing 4 offices and 150+ active carriers.

What it reported doing in 2025

Our union stewards filed more than 400 grievances on behalf of our 250 members during the last year.

Operating model

Revenue model
Membership-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
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 and revenue has grown recently. 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: 27
  • 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: -15.5%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.79; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 39.2%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -49.6% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd 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 · 17 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 17 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.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.