Office and Professional Employees International Union Local 459
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237262843
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Lansing, MI, USA
- Phone
- 5178878844
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,345,428
- Expenses
- $1,359,398
- Assets
- $392,366
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ELIZABETH BETSY LEHNER (PRESIDENT)
- CYNTHIA DINE' (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- DEBBIE JONES-BOLLING (SECRETARY/TREASURER): $9,600 total reported compensation
- ELIZABETH BETSY LEHNER (PRESIDENT): $4,800 total reported compensation
- CYNTHIA DINE' (VICE PRESIDENT): $1,800 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Organize all unorganized professional, technical, office, and clerical employees and promote harmonious relationships between the union and employers.
What it reported doing in 2024
Collective bargaining and representation
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% 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
- 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: 73
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 0
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; 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: 76.9%; rating input score 77; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.29; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.2%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -0.4% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 10 of 13 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $10K · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 10 of 10 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.