The Arizona Students Association
Overview
Mission
To ensure that higher education in Arizona is affordable and accessible by advocating to elected officials and running issue campaigns in order to engage students.
What it reported doing in 2013
ASA's "Leadership Development and Training" class encompasses the many trainings that the organization provides as part of the students' development as leaders. The organization hosts conferences for Arizona students on a variety of sessions, and sends students to trainings and meetings around the country in order to better themselves as leaders.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 860893801
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2013
- Forms available
- Form 990 2012, Form 990-EZ 2013
- Headquarters
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 6022946900
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 78.3%; rating input score 78
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: -93.2%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.26; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 21.4%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -40.2% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -26.2% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 78.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $200K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 13 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: FY2013.