Utility Workers Union of America Local 4
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 310966600
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Bridgewater, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 9088757857
- Rating
- 43
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $324,137
- Expenses
- $350,552
- Assets
- $718,918
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PATRICK MANN (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- PATRICK MANN (VICE PRESIDENT): $7,976 total reported compensation
- EDWARD ANDERSON (SECRETARY): $1,917 total reported compensation
- JOAN O'DONNELL (TREASURER): $694 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To enhance the working and living conditions of the employees of the New Jersey american water company, the somerset raritan valley sewage authority and the elizabeth sewer department.
What it reported doing in 2025
Grievance, arbitration and negotiations representing 221 members.
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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 30
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 9
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 34.4%; rating input score 34
- Program expense ratio: 31.8%; rating input score 32
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8.1%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.05; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4.5% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.7% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.1% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 34.4% of revenue deployed · 31.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 3 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $111K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $8K · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 22 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 34/100.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 32/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 32/100.