Arkansas Reading Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237260811
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2017
- Forms available
- Form 990 2014, Form 990-EZ 2017, Form 990-N 2013
- Location
- Hot Springs, AR, USA
- Phone
- 5012623156
- Rating
- 54
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Remedial Reading, Reading Encouragement
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $29,886
- Expenses
- $59,619
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DOROTHY POLLETT (PAST PRESIDENT)
- KAILA MURPHY (PRESIDENT)
- TARA DERBY (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DOROTHY POLLETT (PAST PRESIDENT)
- KAILA MURPHY (PRESIDENT)
- TARA DERBY (VICE PRESIDENT)
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 2017. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Arkansas reading association is dedicated to promoting reading and developing literacy throughout the state of Arkansas.
What it reported doing in 2017
As an affiliate of the international reading association (ira), the Arkansas reading association includes approximately 2,000 members involved in 26 local reading councils across Arkansas working to further literacy goals. The organization's primary activities include sponsoring conferences and meetings to implement the purpose of the council, supporting activities of local reading councils, stimulating and promoting literacy research, disseminating knowledge on how to resolve reading problems, recognizing and honoring outstanding educators, authors, journalists, and others for significant contributions to reading, and furthering all other purposes of the ira.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 82% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 42
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 10
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 52.1%; rating input score 52
- Program expense ratio: 25%; rating input score 25
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -99.5%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.9% per year; rating input score 0; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -9.4% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -13% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 52.1% of revenue deployed · 25% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $15K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2015 to 2017
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 52/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.