Professional Aviation Safety Specialists (Afl-cio)

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
521847725
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Washington, DC, USA
Phone
2022937277
Rating confidence
Limited

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$6,999,728
Expenses
$6,664,061
Assets
$10,194,050
Liabilities
$2,925,523

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DAVID SPERO (NATIONAL PRESIDENT)
  • ROBERT SEAGRAVE (REGIONAL VICE PRESIDENT)
  • DOUGLAS LOWE (REGIONAL VICE PRESIDENT)
  • RAYMOND BAGGETT (REGIONAL VICE PRESIDENT)
  • BENJAMIN STRUCK (REGIONAL VICE PRESIDENT)
  • TAMARA ROSE (REGIONAL VICE PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • DAVID SPERO (NATIONAL PRESIDENT): $302,547 total reported compensation
  • DENNIE C ROSE II (GENERAL COUNSEL): $268,444 total reported compensation
  • CARLOS AGUIRRE (NATIONAL SECRETARY TREASUR): $239,992 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

A) to preserve, to promote and to improve the profession, the safety and the working conditions of its members.b) to preserve, to promote and to improve the safety of the flying public.c) to develop as an organization with membership involvements at all levels.d) to lead in the promotion and the improvement of the professionalism and the compentence of all employees working in the national airspace system.e) to represent all members by favorably influencing legislation that affects its members' work lives and increasing public awareness of its members, their leadership roles in making air travel safe and the causes important to them.f) to enhance the rights of its members through all lawful means, including collective bargaining, political action, training and educating members, and contributing to such civic and charitable organizations as the pass executive board deems to be in the best interests of pass.

What it reported doing in 2024

Labor relations labor relations includes all costs relating to collective bargaining, representing pass members, ensuring that the federal aviation administration (faa) and the department of defense (dod) comply with applicable laws, regulations and policies, and collective bargaining agreements covering employees in the union's various certified bargaining units. Program objective: to successfully negotiate and enforce collective bargaining agreements through the grievance/arbitration procedure or other third-party dispute resolution processes; to provide advice to union officials and representatives in the field regarding the laws, rules and regulations covering labor relations, federal sector labor unions and faa/dod employees; and to represent the union and its members in various administrative, contractual and judicial proceedings.program accomplishments: pass completed its multi-year bargaining effort concerning its avs cba with the faa and neared completion of its ato cba. This included training pass representatives on the new provisions. The union filed and/or processed many grievances at local/regional levels in its faa and dod bargaining units throughout the year. The vast majority of these cases were successfully settled or withdrawn after further investigation and/or resolution.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 91% 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: 64
  • Accountability: 9
  • Sustainability: 43
  • 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; 63rd 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • 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: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 4.8%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.53; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.29; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 32.7%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 0 of 7 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $303K · 12 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 15 of 15 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 13 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 9 not reported.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 50/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.