Studio Mechanics Local 476 Health and Welfare Fund
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 366602783
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 7737755300
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $18,723,908
- Expenses
- $12,961,349
- Assets
- $19,903,565
- Liabilities
- $302,062
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- ANTHONY BARRACCA (TRUSTEE): $346,315 total reported compensation
- CHRISTOPHER HUDECEK (TRUSTEE): $323,922 total reported compensation
- JAMES HARTNETT JR (TRUSTEE): $277,057 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The studio mechanics local 476 health and welfare fund was established during 1963 as a result of collective bargaining agreements to provide health care, death and disability benefits for participants and covered dependents.
What it reported doing in 2025
See statement of exempt purpose.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 94% 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: 60
- Accountability: 71
- Sustainability: 72
- 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; 64th 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: 50%; rating input score 50; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 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: Limited
- Other executive compensation review process: Limited
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 30.8%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.54; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.2%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 9.7% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 3 of 6 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $346K · 6 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 13 of 13 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: 6 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: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 50/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.