Us Labor Against the War Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 593795492
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2020
- Forms available
- Form 990 2018, Form 990-EZ 2020
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2025215265
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Employment N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $58,004
- Expenses
- $40,312
- Assets
- $43,778
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
People named in this filing
- Yasemin Zahra (CHAIRWOMAN)
- Neal Sweeney (TREASURER)
- Esmeralda Loreto (SECRETARY)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
It is the mission of labor against racism and war to be the organized voice within the labor movement for international worker solidarity, peaceful solutions to international disputes, public education on international issues, and the domestic impact and consequences of racism and militarism. The organization also brings labor's voice and strength into wider movements for peace and new priorities in the united states and builds solidarity with labor movements around the world.
What it reported doing in 2020
Education and advocacy uslaw was an active and often leading participant in the national antiwar and new priorities movements, and in particular their response to the wars in iraq, afghanistan and syria, and nuclear negotiations with iran. Uslaw continued providing solidarity support to iraqi unions. It has become active in responding to the militarization of the police and related violations of civil and human rights, and the impact of militarization on climate change. Uslaw has participated in the annual international day of action on military spending. Uslaw developed a variety of educational and advocacy materials, articles, slide shows, videos, photos and other conntent for on and off-line distribution. Uslaw has participated in various conferernces with literature tables and workshops and has made presentations to meetings of its affiliates and allied organizations. In collaboration with its allies, it organized letter writing, phone calls and petitions by its supporters to member
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 69% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 56.7%; rating input score 57
- Program expense ratio: 81.5%; rating input score 82
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 30.5%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.09; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 59%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -19.6% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -10.3% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 26.5% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 56.7% of revenue deployed · 81.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $33K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2015 to 2020
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 57/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.