Retired United Airlines Employees Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237449989
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Denver, CO, USA
- Phone
- 3037805664
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Historical Societies, Related Historical Activities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $97,386
- Expenses
- $145,456
- Assets
- $135,372
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ruth Morabito (President)
- Virgil Gooselaw (Past President)
People named in this filing
- Ruth Morabito (President)
- George Midwin (Exec VP)
- Virgil Gooselaw (Past 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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Form 990-EZ, Part III. The organization's primary exempt Purpose: To provide information to members through a newsmagazine and website, as an avenue for retired employees to maintain contact with other members and to attend conferences for information about what is happening in the airline community. This purpose also includes providing education about the history of the airline industry, information for retirees that will assist them in dealing with retirement issues, support aviation memorials around the country, with a specific example being the Flight 93 Memorial in Pennsylvania memorializing those who died on Flight 93 on 9/11
What it reported doing in 2025
During 2025, RUAEA published 12 monthly Newsletters, distributed monthly to an average of 2300 members, coordinated the Annual Convention in Denver, held the annual Membership Business meeting, and held 2 Board of Directors meetings to meet the bylaw requirements. Established a Retired Presidents Committee for all labor groups, with 4 quarterly Zoom meetings to identify retiree challenges. Broadened the scope of our outreach to include daily online security briefings in conjunction with United Airlines resources. Additional workshops for both cybersecurity and retiree benefit changes related to Healthcare options and travel news.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -49.4%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.93; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -17.1% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -29.6% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $145K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.