Unite-here Local No 1
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 363185986
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 3126634373
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $14,908,414
- Expenses
- $14,863,838
- Assets
- $11,000,917
- Liabilities
- $8,616
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
22 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KAREN KENT (PRESIDENT)
- LOUIS WEEKS (EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT)
- ANDREA SOTELO (FORMER VICE PRESIDENT)
- EMAD MENIAS (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JERI ELLIOTT (VICE PRESIDENT)
- ROBERTO ISLA (VICE PRESIDENT & EXECUTIVE BOARD)
Highest reported compensation
- ANDREA SOTELO (FORMER VICE PRESIDENT): $114,026 total reported compensation
- XIAO DAN LI (TREASURER): $110,126 total reported compensation
- DAMIANO JENKINS (FORMER EXECUTIVE BOARD): $91,581 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 local has a stated purpose to organize workers for the economic, moral and social advancement of their condition and status in life. The local also promotes efficient service to the public and the best interests of the industries in which its members are engaged.
What it reported doing in 2025
To organize all workers for the economic, moral, and social advancement of their condition and status.
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: 83
- Accountability: 27
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 9th 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: 5.9%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.3%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.74; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.3%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 1 of 17 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $114K · 22 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $1.1M reported
- Consistency: 14 of 15 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 18 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 4 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 6/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 9 not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.