Service Employees International Union
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 360852885
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Washington, DC, US
- Phone
- 2027307000
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $280,796,391
- Expenses
- $327,908,921
- Assets
- $405,819,478
- Liabilities
- $56,082,684
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
96 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- APRIL VERRETT (INTERN. PRESIDENT-EFF. 05/24)
- MARY KAY HENRY (INTERN. PRESIDENT-TERM. 05/24)
- JOSEPH BRYANT (EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT)
- NEAL BISNO (EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT)
- HEATHER CONROY (EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT)
- LESLIE FRANE (EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- NENEKI LEE (CHIEF OF STAFF): $405,665 total reported compensation
- BARBARA ROSENTHAL (NATIONAL ORGANIZING DIRECTOR): $375,382 total reported compensation
- APRIL VERRETT (INTERN. PRESIDENT-EFF. 05/24): $372,666 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To unite diverse members in healthcare, the public sector, and property services to fight for dignity, safety, and respect at work and in communities, advancing a Vision for a Just Society where all workers are valued and all people respected.
What it reported doing in 2024
Supporting organizing and bargaining efforts for affiliates and members and political action and education.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 95% 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: 54
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 20
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; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 92.4%; rating input score 92; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: -16.8%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.24; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.8%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 73 of 79 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $406K · 96 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $22.3M reported
- Consistency: 13 of 13 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes foreign activity, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 18 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 5 filed related-organization links
- 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: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.