United Association of Journeymen & 704 Detroit Sprinklers Fitters
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 381494380
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Southfield, MI, USA
- Phone
- 2484747553
- Rating
- 60
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,412,033
- Expenses
- $2,714,465
- Assets
- $10,518,631
- Liabilities
- $5,561
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GLAINE STEWART (PRESIDENT/S.I.S./D.C.F. TRUSTEE)
- JEFF GRAY (VICE PRESIDENT/EXAMINING BOARD/MI STATE PIPE TRADES DELEGATE)
Highest reported compensation
- GREG HERMAN (BUSINESS MANAGER/ FINANCIAL SECY): $142,263 total reported compensation
- ROBERT WILLIAMS (BUSINESS AGENT): $135,693 total reported compensation
- JEFF GRAY (VICE PRESIDENT/EXAMINING BOARD/MI STATE PIPE TRADES DELEGATE): $118,035 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provide services to members and wage assistance grants to contributing employers
What it reported doing in 2024
The union provides benefits to members through labor contracts and employment in the sprinkler fitter industry
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 74% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 70% for direct work, 27% for affiliated organizations, and 3% for member benefits.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 42
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 34
- Sustainability: 77
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 32%; rating input score 32
- Program expense ratio: 43.5%; rating input score 43
- Fundraising efficiency: $154.46 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
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: 42.9%; rating input score 43; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 38.5%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.88; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 17.4%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.9% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 32% of revenue deployed · 43.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 7 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $1.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $142K · 18 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 32/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 43/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 43/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 9 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.