Service Employees International Union

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
930323147
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Salem, OR, USA
Phone
5035811505
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$45,550,866
Expenses
$43,132,581
Assets
$32,433,250
Liabilities
$5,839,689

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

Leadership & pay

60 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JOHNNY EARL (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • MELISSA UNGER (EXECUTIVE DI): $247,179 total reported compensation
  • SIOBHAN MARTIN (DEPUTY EXECU): $228,955 total reported compensation
  • AARON GIESA (DEPUTY EXECU): $201,614 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

To improve the quality of life through worker empowerment and a progressive labor movement.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 88% 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 78% for direct work, 4% for grants, 17% for affiliated organizations, and 1% for member benefits.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 65
  • Transparency & Controls: 71
  • Accountability: 85
  • Sustainability: 42
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 72%; rating input score 72
  • Program expense ratio: 76.5%; rating input score 76
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 13th 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: 90.3%; rating input score 90; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 89.7%; rating input score 90; 18th 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: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 5.3%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.75; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 3.6%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 75% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 72% of revenue deployed · 76.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 26 of 29 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: Filed program service accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $247K · 60 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $448K reported
  • Consistency: 36 of 37 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 29 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 14 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 45/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 54/100.