Utility Safety & Ops Leadership Network NFP

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
460745457
IRS 990 coverage
2016–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Crystal Lake, IL, USA
Phone
8154591796
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Business and Industry

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$517,686
Expenses
$434,249
Assets
$362,372
Liabilities
$5,036

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Curtis Marquardt 10125-90125 (Executive Director)
  • Carlyn Housh 090125-123125 (Executive Director)

Highest reported compensation

  • Curtis Marquardt 10125-90125 (Executive Director): $51,545 total reported compensation
  • Carlyn Housh 090125-123125 (Executive Director): $25,773 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Improvement of business conditions for utilities, contractors and communication providers and establish a strong safety leadership, a reliable Certified Utility Safety Professional program, provide regulatory interaction, support updates and furnish networking resources for the benefit and advancement of its membership.

What it reported doing in 2025

The Certified Utility Safety Professional, CUSP, program is the premier credentialing body designed specifically for the unique safety requirements of the utility industry and its contractors. To earn the CUSP designation, candidates must meet rigorous eligibility criteria, undergo a formal committee review, and pass a comprehensive examination. The exam evaluates a leaders mastery of six core areas standards, hazard identification, incident prevention, leadership, human performance, and operations. In 2025, approximately 250 professionals earned their certification, bringing the total number of active CUSP credentials held through the USOLN to 1654.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 100% 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: 79
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 52
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 16.1%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.83; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 17.8%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 23.3% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $52K · 13 people listed
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $347K reported
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2016 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 57/100.