Alliance for Working Together Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
455516062
IRS 990 coverage
2016–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2015
Location
Mentor, OH, USA
Phone
4404621995
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Engineering and Technology

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$337,514
Expenses
$929,881
Assets
$2,134,334
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

18 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ALYSON SCOTT (PRESIDENT)
  • SARA SPENCE (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • TERESA SIMONS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • TERESA SIMONS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $104,380 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To promote rewarding manufacturing careers for the future sustainablity of the manufacturing sector through outreach, education, training, and strategic partnerships.

What it reported doing in 2024

Awt creates awareness of manufacturing careers through its programs, in order to help reduce the workforce skills gap created by shifting demographics and decreassed enrollment in career and technical education (cte)programs. One of awt's primary manufacturing education programs is robobots. Through this program, high school students partner with local manufacturing companies to build a combat robot and compete against other schools and companies. Awt's juniorbots is a similar program for middle school students. Another awt program is called the think manufacturing student expo. Working with the lake county chamber of commmerce, the expo is a way for many lake county students to learn about careers in local businesses and industries. Amt operates six different science, technology, engineering and mathematics (steam) to career summer camps called summer manufacturing institute (smi)for 5th and 6th grade students in ashtabula county, lake county, and geauga county. Awt's science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (stem) to careeer program allows teachers, administrators, and guidance counselors to tour local manugacturing facilities, gain free, manufacturing specific lesson plans, and lesson plan materials. This program allows teachers, administrators, and guidance counselors to experience manufacturing first-hand and bring those life experiences and lesson plans into the classroom. Awt has partnered with edufactor to create digital manufacturing resources such as manufacturing videos and lesson-plan library.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 60% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
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.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 47
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 31
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 44.1%; rating input score 44
  • Program expense ratio: 69%; rating input score 69
  • 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: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -175.5%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.3; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 11.2%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 30.2% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 24.2% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 27.9% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 44.1% of revenue deployed · 69% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $642K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $104K · 18 people listed
  • Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2016 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 44/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 28/100.