Washington State Patrol Union Troopers Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 911125594
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Olympia, WA, USA
- Phone
- 3607047530
- Rating
- 58
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,879,518
- Expenses
- $1,838,521
- Assets
- $784,401
- Liabilities
- $420
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
21 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Spike Unruh (President)
- Jerry Walker (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Washington State Patrol-reimburse (Reimbursement): $174,976 total reported compensation
- Derek Anderson (Secretary/Treasurer): $28,833 total reported compensation
- Jerry Walker (Vice President): $28,833 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Collective bargaining for members
What it reported doing in 2024
The objective of the Association is to negotiate & administer a collective bargaining agreement with the State of Washington and to work for the betterment of working conditions of members.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 71% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 95% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 58
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 14
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 64.6%; rating input score 65
- Fundraising efficiency: $3 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 12th 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: Limited
- Governance controls: 3 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.2%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.43; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 26%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 63% of revenue deployed · 64.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $175K · 21 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 21 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 9/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.