Teamsters Local Union No 344 Sales and Service Industry
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 390146203
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Milwaukee, WI, USA
- Phone
- 4142584545
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,121,269
- Expenses
- $4,892,541
- Assets
- $4,357,662
- Liabilities
- $7,322
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ERIC KUKOR (PRESIDENT - PAST)
- BRIAN BARBER (VICE PRESIDENT)
- KEVIN SCHWERDTFEGER (PRESIDENT / BUS REP)
Highest reported compensation
- WILLIAM CARROLL (SECRETARY-TREASURER): $249,211 total reported compensation
- KEVIN SCHWERDTFEGER (PRESIDENT / BUS REP): $238,606 total reported compensation
- DAVID KRAUSE (TRUSTEE / BUS REP): $237,461 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 organize all workers for the moral, economic and social advancement of their condition and status.
What it reported doing in 2025
To unite into one labor organization all workers eligible for membership, to engage in organizing workers, to secure improved wages, hours, working conditions and other economic advantages, to provide educational advancement and training, to safeguard, advance and promote the rights of workers, to engage in activities which further the interest of this organization and its members, to provide financial and moral assistance to other labor organizations with similar or related objectives, to protect and preserve the union, to carry out the objectives of the international union, and to receive, manage, invest, expend or otherwise use the funds and property of this organization to carry out the duties and objectives of this organization.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 96% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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: 47
- Accountability: 18
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 3rd 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: 24.4%; rating input score 24; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.5%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.89; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 38.3%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 0 of 7 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $249K · 14 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 11 of 12 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 13 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 24/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.