Office & Professional Employees International Union - Local 179

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
626047128
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2017–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Chattanooga, TN, USA
Phone
7068669346
Rating
83
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$137,219
Expenses
$100,817
Assets
$303,306
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • STEVE NAPOLITANO (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • RON FREEMAN (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • STEVE NAPOLITANO (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • RON FREEMAN (PRESIDENT)
  • BRANDEN SEWELL (SECRETARY/TREASURER)

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

Union mission is to improve the lives of working families by bringing economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our communities.

What it reported doing in 2025

Representation of members to labor relations board for potential discrimination.

Operating model

Revenue model
Membership-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 57% for direct work, and 43% for grants.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 83
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 74
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 73.5%; rating input score 73
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 26.5%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.01; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 12.8%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 13% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 11.5% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 73.5% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $101K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 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 — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.