National Association of Letter Carriers Branch 52
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 953450025
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- San Luis Obispo, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8055437329
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $132,604
- Expenses
- $94,949
- Assets
- $554,222
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ALFRED RAMOS (PRESIDENT (RETIRED 9/30/25))
- LYDIA J CAFFREY (VICE-PRESIDENT)
- ANDRES GAYTAN (PRESIDENT)
- JOSEPH ALVAREZ (EXEC. VICE-PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ANDRES GAYTAN (PRESIDENT): $14,005 total reported compensation
- ALFRED RAMOS (PRESIDENT (RETIRED 9/30/25)): $7,960 total reported compensation
- RAYMOND PAULEY (SECRETARY): $4,980 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Public information and dissemination of information.
What it reported doing in 2025
Public relations and dissemination of information.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 96% 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
- 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: 9
- Sustainability: 71
- 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; 64th 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: Limited
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 28.4%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.84; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 40.4%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $14K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.