Service Employees International 1199 W Va & Ky Hospital Care

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
550603480
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Columbus, OH, USA
Phone
6144611199
Rating
67
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$15,760,791
Expenses
$13,028,774
Assets
$40,239,378
Liabilities
$1,294,430

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

Leadership & pay

159 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • BECKY WILLIAMS (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • BECKY WILLIAMS (PRESIDENT): $163,593 total reported compensation
  • JOYCE GIBSON (SECRETARY TR): $144,379 total reported compensation
  • SHERRI MCKINNEY (EXECUTIVE VI): $132,454 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Seiu district 1199 seeks to improve quality of life for its members and society as a whole by improving the working conditions, wages and benefits of its members. It does this by representing them in collective bargaining negotiations with their employers, arbitrating labor disputes and organizing new bargaining units. Seiu district 1199 represents approximately 25,000 members throughout West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio.

What it reported doing in 2025

Members were organized into collective bargaining units and represented in negotiations with their employers as well as job actions. Leaders were trained to strengthen the union and members were kept abreast of events that affect them on a local and national level.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 97% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 69% for direct work, 2% for grants, and 29% for affiliated organizations.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 68
  • Transparency & Controls: 50
  • Accountability: 91
  • Sustainability: 69
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 70.5%; rating input score 71
  • Program expense ratio: 87.2%; rating input score 87
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 7.9%; rating input score 8; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 17.3%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.09; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 6.5%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -1.7% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 0.5% per year; rating input score 100; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 10.8% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 70.5% of revenue deployed · 87.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 159 of 159 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $164K · 159 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 29 of 30 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 90 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 — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 8/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 46/100.