Carolinas Assoc of Advertising And
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 581991430
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Waynesboro, PA, USA
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $133,819
- Expenses
- $103,936
- Assets
- $118,481
- Liabilities
- $3,714
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARK THIELEKE (President ELEC)
- LAUREN SHIFFLETT (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- MARK THIELEKE (President ELEC)
- LAUREN SHIFFLETT (Vice President)
- JENNIFER WALKER (Treasurer)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To advance the image of promotional products and their use. Prmote higher standards of business and professionalism. Create a meeting place for education and idea exchange between suppliers, distributors, and supplier representatives. This is accomplished by conducting trade shows, leadership confrence and an idea camp
What it reported doing in 2025
Trade shows, leadership conferences, and an idea camp were conduceted during the year in order to educate association members and bring together members.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 22.3%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.14; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -2.2% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- 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.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.