United Association Plumber Local No 15 Building Corporation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 410881771
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Maple Grove, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6123338601
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,572,176
- Expenses
- $842,178
- Assets
- $24,106,745
- Liabilities
- $13,307,127
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PAUL MASON (PRESIDENT)
- JOE GARDELL (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- THOMAS PAHKALA (BUSINESS MANAGER): $300,760 total reported compensation
- DAVE LILLBACK (BUSINESS AGENT): $269,106 total reported compensation
- JOSEPH LANE (BUSINESS AGENT): $268,796 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Operation and management of a building for the united association plumbers local no. 15 and other local union organizations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 99% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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: 66
- Accountability: 56
- Sustainability: 73
- 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; 63rd 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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 64.3%; rating input score 64; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 46.4%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 28.62; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.55; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 50.6%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 20.7% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 9 of 14 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $301K · 13 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 10 of 10 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.