National Public Employer Labor Relations Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237380090
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Vernon Hills, IL, USA
- Phone
- 8582993150
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,771,104
- Expenses
- $1,464,003
- Assets
- $979,475
- Liabilities
- $129,428
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Blaise Lamphier (Past President)
- Jenna Richardson (Executive Vice President)
- Roxanne Bonner (First Vice President)
- Joyce Roling (Second Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Blaise Lamphier (Past President)
- Jenna Richardson (Executive Vice President)
- Roxanne Bonner (First Vice President)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
National PELRA provides professional development, education, training, networking and advocacy services to public employer labor relations and human resources professionals so that the public employer can best deliver effective services to their community
What it reported doing in 2024
Virtual learning continues to grow and National PELRA has a federally registered Certified Labor Relations Professional certificate program with courses held once per quarter. These virtual programs supplement in-person training opportunities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 77% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 69% for direct work, and 31% for affiliated organizations.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 30
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74.3%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 89.9%; rating input score 90
- 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17.3%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.67; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.9% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.1% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 74.3% of revenue deployed · 89.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 12 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $428K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $167K reported
- Consistency: 21 of 22 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Fund balance restriction sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 38/100.