California Science Teachers Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 942926545
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Sacramento, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9169797004
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $579,082
- Expenses
- $617,667
- Assets
- $438,733
- Liabilities
- $152,318
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PETER A'HEARN (Past President)
- DEBBIE GORDON (President)
People named in this filing
- TRICIA DENNIS (PRIMARY DIR)
- NANCY NASR (REG 3 DIR)
- MEGAN BETTIS (4YR COLLEGE DIR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide a statewide organization for the improvement of K-12 and post-secondary science education, to promote scientific thinking and teaching methods, and to encourage and conduct research in the field of science education.
What it reported doing in 2024
Publications - produces newsletters and journals relating to science and provides them free to all elementary and secondary schools in California.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 94% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.5%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 72.9%; rating input score 73
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 8th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6.7%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.71; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.35; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.6% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 77.5% of revenue deployed · 72.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 16 of 16 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $450K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 16 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $204K reported
- Consistency: 20 of 21 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.