Connecticut School Transportation Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 061061061
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2009
- Location
- Old Saybrook, CT, USA
- Phone
- 8609532782
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $265,788
- Expenses
- $204,388
- Assets
- $438,688
- Liabilities
- $404
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JEAN CRONIN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- BRAD COHEN (PAST PRESIDENT)
- JON HIPSHER (PRESIDENT)
- NAKISHA STRICKLAND (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JEAN CRONIN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $146,460 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To promote and foster the highest degree of safety in the transportation of school children. To that end, we provide continuing education for our members and sponsor annual safety skills competitions and safe driver recognition programs.
What it reported doing in 2024
Monitored legislation in state assembly, testified on bills, worked with dmv on regulations.
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 98% 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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.3%; rating input score 82
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 23.1%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.15; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 71.7%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.9% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 82.3% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $204K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $146K · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 18 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 57/100.