United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 350723065
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Washington, DC, US
- Phone
- 2025466206
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $124,285,512
- Expenses
- $110,286,266
- Assets
- $815,810,267
- Liabilities
- $4,390,036
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MCCARRON DOUGLAS J (GENERAL PRESIDENT)
- PERINAR GARY GENE (SECOND GENERAL VICE PRESIDENT)
- WATERKOTTE WILLIAM R (DISTRICT VICE PRESIDENT)
- KWIATKOWSKI MICHAEL J (DISTRICT VICE PRESIDENT)
- ENGELS JASON BLAKE (DISTRICT VICE PRESIDENT)
- RODRIGUEZ PEDRO S (DISTRICT VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- MCGRIFF MARK G (GENERAL SECRETARY TREASURER): $933,247 total reported compensation
- MCCARRON DOUGLAS J (GENERAL PRESIDENT): $890,153 total reported compensation
- PERINAR GARY GENE (SECOND GENERAL VICE PRESIDENT): $734,475 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The UBC is focused on our goal of achieving 70 percent market share in the crafts we represent. The Brotherhood is ready to keep building strong and leading the way.
What it reported doing in 2024
To organize all workers for social and economic 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: 53
- Accountability: 18
- Sustainability: 74
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 81.8%; rating input score 82; 0th 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: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Pass
- Conducts field audits: Limited
- May suspend future funding: Limited
- Requires financial reports: Limited
- Conducts site visits: Limited
- Requires grant agreements: Limited
- May require repayment: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 63.2%; rating input score 63; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 4th 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: 11.3%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.4; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.9%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 0 of 9 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $933K · 14 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $6.1M reported
- Consistency: 14 of 16 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 40 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 36 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 9 not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.