Alabama Education Association

Overview

Mission

(a) to provide maximum educational opportunities for all students by providing a higher quality of teaching sound programs of instruction, and adequate financing for public education; (b) to seek economic security for all education employees; (c) increase public awareness of the goals of aea as related to the needs, problems, and progress of education,(d)maintain a strong, independent, united education profession, (e) protect the constitutional, statutory, and human rights of all education employees and students, (f) to improve the moral and ethical climate in schools and government; (g)represent members in their employment relations with their employers (h)support maximum employee input into the decisions and policies of their employer

Operating model

Revenue model

Earned-program. 82% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.

Distribution model

Direct operator. The filing allocates 85% 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

SUPPORTED - Most voting board members are independent and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

• Financial Efficiency: 58
• Transparency & Controls: 63
• Accountability: 95
• Sustainability: 31
• Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Details

• Where the money goes: 64% of revenue deployed · 65.7% of spending went to programs
• Governance: 35 of 33 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
• Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments
• Leadership: top reported pay $381K · 42 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
• Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.2M reported
• Consistency: 30 of 33 current checks pass · 3 findings to review
• Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, executive pay, and related organizations
• Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
• Contacts: How to reach this organization
• Money network: 13 filed money-flow records
• Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
• 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.
• Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

• High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
• High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
• Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
• High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
• High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
• Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Document-retention policy not reported.
• High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.
• Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Independent members within voting members did not reconcile in the filed values.
• Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D land buildings reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
• Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grants require schedule f did not reconcile in the filed values.
• Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 44/100.