Northwest Airlines Inc Voluntary Employees Beneficiary Trust
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 411619015
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2010
- Forms available
- Form 990 2010
- Location
- Atlanta, GA, USA
- Phone
- 4047152600
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Voluntary Employees Beneficiary Associations (Non-Government)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $28,211,850
- Expenses
- $34,919,299
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2010. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2010. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
This Trust has been established to fund and administer a Plan providing for death, sickness, accident, medical, disability, vacation recreational, or other benefits which safeguard or improve the health of an individual.
What it reported doing in 2010
This Trust is a Voluntary Employee Benefit Association (VEBA) that was established to fund and distribute employee benefits.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 100% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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
- 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: 64
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 12
- Growth: NotEnoughData
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; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Limited
- Other executive compensation review process: Limited
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -23.8%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.1%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 3 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $34.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $19K · 11 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 10 of 10 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 0/100.