The Union League of Philadelphia
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 231171350
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Philadelphia, PA, US
- Phone
- 215-563-6500
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $95,385,537
- Expenses
- $87,884,757
- Assets
- $244,637,413
- Liabilities
- $134,652,148
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
39 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ROBERT CAVALIER (PRESIDENT)
- KATHLEEN DEL RASO (VICE PRESIDENT - LEAGUE HOUSE)
- CHRISTOPHER TOPOLEWSKI (VICE PRESIDENT - FINANCE)
- TIMOTHY HUGHES (VICE PRESIDENT - NATIONAL)
- ROBERT KANE JR (VICE PRESIDENT - LIBERTY HILL)
- THOMAS MCGARRIGLE (VICE PRESIDENT - MEMBERSHIP AND FOUNDING FORWARD)
Highest reported compensation
- MCFADDEN JEFFREY (CEO): $1,050,912 total reported compensation
- HAMANN MARTIN (EXECUTIVE CHEF): $511,592 total reported compensation
- TOBIN PATRICIA (GENERAL MANAGER): $394,281 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 support the Union and the policies of President Abraham Lincoln, driven by the founding motto 'Amor Patriae Ducit' (Love of Country Leads).
What it reported doing in 2024
Tax exempt club activities.
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: 73
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 58
- 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; 68th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th 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: 7.9%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.78; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.55; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.5%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.4% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 4 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 22 of 22 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.1M · 39 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $472K reported
- Consistency: 12 of 12 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 18 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.