Tucson Electrical Joint Apprenticeship & Training Program
Legal name: Tucson Electrical Joint Apprenticeship & Training Trust Fund
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 866050928
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Tucson, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 5207904690
- Rating
- 53
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,348,844
- Expenses
- $1,015,519
- Assets
- $4,018,837
- Liabilities
- $1,623,945
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Karen King (Training Director): $122,847 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to inspire learning through a collaborative approach that promotes adaptability in an ever advancing electrical industry.
What it reported doing in 2025
We are a four-year apprenticeship program with on the job training and classroom instruction. We operate on 3% of gross payroll as defined in the collective bargaining agreement between the IBEW 570 and southern Arizona NECA. We provide standardized training and education to the members of the international brotherhood of electrical workers and the national electrical contractors association in a joint apprenticeship program called the Tucson electrical joint apprenticeship and training program. Along with the classroom instruction, we keep track of students' on the job training hours received from our signatory electrical contractors. An apprentice typically earns 2,000 hours on the job training and 225 hours in the classroom. This program is a national program that registers with the Arizona Commerce Authority, Office of Apprenticeship.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 98% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 65
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 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: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 24.7%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.96; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.4; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.1%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 13.3% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 27.4% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $123K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 10 of 11 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 31/100.