Alabama Conference of Educators
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 631271148
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2011
- Location
- Birmingham, AL, USA
- Phone
- 8662662263
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Boards of Trade
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $997,343
- Expenses
- $819,623
- Assets
- $1,747,036
- Liabilities
- $1,186
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- HARLEY PHILLIPS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- MARLA VAUGHN (PRESIDENT)
- CHERYL ELLEY (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- HARLEY PHILLIPS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $109,513 total reported compensation
- STEPHEN BUNT (DIRECTOR): $104,513 total reported compensation
- DENISE ANDREWS (DIRECTOR): $24,300 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 help teachers help students by encouraging lifelong learning, providing professional growth opportunities, and recognizing and rewarding excellence in teaching and learning.
What it reported doing in 2025
To create a focus on excellence in education in Alabama's public schools; to encourage, foster and facilitate new and innovative professional development strategies and opportunities for school teachers
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 95% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- 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: 86
- Accountability: 56
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 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: 40%; rating input score 40; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17.8%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.13; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 31.5%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.5% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 4 of 10 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $110K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 10 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 13 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: Independent voting board scored 40/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.