United Association of Journeymen & Apprentices of the Plumbing & Pipe 597
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 361820310
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 3128294191
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $22,886,380
- Expenses
- $19,135,967
- Assets
- $41,027,461
- Liabilities
- $5,982,807
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
37 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOSEPH VELLENGA JR (PRESIDENT/COLLECTIONS COORDINATOR)
- CHRISTOPHER QUINN (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- CHRISTOPHER HERNANDEZ (BUSINESS MANAGER): $511,938 total reported compensation
- DENNIS HAHNEY JR (FIN'L SECRETARY TREASURER): $389,963 total reported compensation
- TIMOTHY GILLOOLEY (RECORDING SECRETARY): $379,346 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 organize all workers for the moral, economic and social advancement of their condition and status.
What it reported doing in 2024
To maintain a close and harmonious affiliation of all persons engaged in the pipe fitting industry; to further by education, research and loyal cooperation the interests of its respective members; to make agreements with employers engaged in the pipe fitting industry so that all concerned may work in complete accord and to mutual advantage; to teach the art of the trade and craft to apprentices so that they may become competent and efficient mechanics and thus qualify for membership in this association; to protect the public against unfair and unscrupulous labor, the exploitation of labor and to maintain high standards and good workmanship in the pipe fitting industry.
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: 54
- Accountability: 23
- Sustainability: 63
- 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: 55.2%; rating input score 55; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: 16.4%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.14; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 34.2%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.2% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 0 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $512K · 37 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $435K reported
- Consistency: 11 of 12 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 37 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.
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 9 not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 55/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.