United Food and Commercial Workers International Union
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 340644259
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Akron, OH, USA
- Phone
- 3309261444
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $8,449,362
- Expenses
- $6,815,408
- Assets
- $11,979,042
- Liabilities
- $27,752
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LANCE E HEASLEY (PRESIDENT)
- GERARD SETLEY (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JERRY HUROCY (VICE PRESIDENT)
- GREG CHAMBERS (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JACQUELIN R ALLEN (VICE PRESIDENT)
- KERRY C PHILLIPS (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- LANCE E HEASLEY (PRESIDENT): $319,626 total reported compensation
- RICKY LAWRENCE (SECRETARY/TREASURER): $244,000 total reported compensation
- GERARD SETLEY (VICE PRESIDENT): $232,022 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 icwuc's mission is to negotiate and enforce collective bargaining agreements, conduct worker oriented education, assist workers in obtaining recognition to collectively bargain, and
What it reported doing in 2024
Negotiate and enforce collective bargaining agreements assist workers in obtaining recognition to collectively bargain
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 49% for direct work, and 51% for affiliated organizations.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 60
- Accountability: 86
- Sustainability: 69
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.5%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 90%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- 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: 19.3%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.76; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.2%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4.8% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.2% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 82.5% of revenue deployed · 90% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $6.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $320K · 8 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 45 of 45 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 46/100.