Ufcw
Legal name: United Food and Commercial Workers International Union
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 530220586
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2022233111
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Labor Unions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $261,789,459
- Expenses
- $203,073,342
- Assets
- $677,316,707
- Liabilities
- $392,045
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
68 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PERRONE ANTHONY (INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT)
- HAGGERTY MICHAEL S (EXEC VP/NAT'L PRESIDENT)
- MEINEMA PAUL R (EXEC VP/NAT'L PRESIDENT (UNTIL 2/27/24))
- STUART APPELBAUM (EXEC VP/PRESIDENT RWDSU)
- YOUNG DAVID T (EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT/ORG DIR)
- WERNER LORI A (EXECUITVE VICE PRESIDENT (UNTIL 4/1/24))
Highest reported compensation
- FORD PETER JAMES (GENERAL COUNSEL): $453,242 total reported compensation
- WYNN BRYAN E (INT'L VICE PRESIDENT): $419,860 total reported compensation
- STUART APPELBAUM (EXEC VP/PRESIDENT RWDSU): $392,885 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We believe that one good job should be enough, that all jobs should have dignity. You deserve a living wage and benefits that guarantee the health and happiness of you and your family.
What it reported doing in 2024
Organized all workers for the economic, moral, and social advancement of their condition and status.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 83% 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: 71
- Accountability: 37
- Sustainability: 79
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Limited
- 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: 96.6%; rating input score 97; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 22.4%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.34; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 0 of 19 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $453K · 68 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $3.9M reported
- Consistency: 14 of 15 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 109 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 58 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Whistleblower policy not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 26/100.