Apwa Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 320627990
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Kansas City, MO, USA
- Phone
- 8165955280
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Corporate Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $19,803
- Expenses
- $12,274
- Assets
- $89,760
- Liabilities
- $10,550
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SCOTT GRAYSON (CEO)
- DOMINICK LONGOBARDI (TRUSTEE, APWA PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- SCOTT GRAYSON (CEO)
- JULIE BEBERMEYER (COO)
- MIKE LUTZ (CFO)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The apwa foundation is driven by its organizational mission statement, to provide resources for the advancement of public works professionals and the public works industry. The apwa foundation was created to serve as a philanthropic arm to raise financial funding to support the mission of the american public works association, a 501(c)(3) organization headquartered in Kansas city, Missouri (apwa). The foundation's programs are facilitated and delivered through the apwa. The foundation has four designated direct giving avenues and a general fund to provide donors the ability to direct their donation to a specific public works program or activity. The foundation can accept individual and corporate donations for any of the directed giving opportunities.
What it reported doing in 2024
The foundation's key direct giving programs and annually planned activities are listed below: -public works education: the apwa foundation provides financial funding to create educational training and professional development opportunities focused on emerging public works technologies, leadership development, public works innovation and best practices idea exchanges between public works professionals. -advancement of young professionals in public works: the apwa foundation provides financial funding to create and develop young professional's leadership and educational training to continue to improve and advance the profession. -international public works education: the apwa foundation provides funding for public works professionals to participate in an international study and professional exchange program. The jennings randolph international fellowship program promotes international collaboration and sharing of public works best practices, knowledge and innovation both nationally and with public works colleagues in north america through educational sharing after completing the international study tour. -public works awareness in the community and the public: the apwa foundation provides financial funding to promote public works awareness in local communities, awareness of public works professionals as first responders and the promotion of public works as a career choice to support future workforce development.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 75
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 50.5%; rating input score 50
- Program expense ratio: 81.5%; rating input score 81
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 38%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.31; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 200% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -56.9% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21.6% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 50.5% of revenue deployed · 81.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $10K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 50/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.