Brewster Teachers Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237163534
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Brewster, NY, USA
- Phone
- 8452793702
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Labor Unions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $347,711
- Expenses
- $325,709
- Assets
- $175,715
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PAUL GEORGE (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- PAUL GEORGE (PRESIDENT): $12,300 total reported compensation
- KRISTIN FIELD (TREASURER): $5,116 total reported compensation
- JEANNE SHERMAN (SECRETARY): $4,816 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of this organization is to conduct labor negotiations and to preform activities that promote education and community awareness.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 99% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Member-benefit provider. The nonprofit used 73% of its reported program spending for member benefits.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 5
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.7%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- 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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 11
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.3%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.54; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.9%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 25.7% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 93.7% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 29 board members independent · 1 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $12K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 17 of 17 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 31/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.