Eau Claire Association of Educators

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
391490803
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2012–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Eau Claire, WI, USA
Phone
7158351916
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Professional Societies & Associations

Reported finances

Revenue
$181,516
Expenses
$254,666
Assets
$119,831
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MARK GOINGS (PRESIDENT (THRU MAY 2025))
  • JEREMY TRAYNOR (PRESIDENT)
  • ADAM STURGIS (VICE PRESIDENT OF LABOR RELATIONS)

People named in this filing

  • MARK GOINGS (PRESIDENT (THRU MAY 2025))
  • BRIAN WILTGEN (VP MEMBERSHIP & COMMUNICATION)
  • JEREMY TRAYNOR (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Ecae: committed to our kids and community! The eau claire association of educators is the oldest organization in Wisconsin to recognize the need for professional educators to collectively advocate for the welfare of its members.

What it reported doing in 2024

Eau claire association of educators exists: to aid and assist members in obtaining and extending benefits of mutual assistance and collective bargaining; to develop among the profession and the public a better understanding of the issues and problems in the area of teachers' rights; to advance the civil and academic rights of the teaching profession; to encourage all teachers without regard to race, creed, gender, color, national origin, or sexual orientation to share equally in the full benefits of this organization, the Wisconsin education association council and the national education association; to work for legislation that will safeguard and promote the principle of free collective bargaining and the rights of teachers and to oppose legislation hostile to these objectives; to promote and use all appropriate media in order to advance and protect the teaching profession and the individual rights of the members of the teaching profession through education and other lawful means; to safeguard the democratic character of the teachers' association for protection of the rights of the teaching profession, and its individual members, through the organizations with which it affiliates; to encourage teachers to register and vote, to exercise their full rights and responsibilities of citizenship and to perform their rightful part in the political life of local, state and national committees, while preserving the independence of teachers and the teaching profession from political control, and to engage in political activity permitted to a labor organization by law in furtherance of the objectives set forth in this article; to promote the human and civil rights and educational welfare of all students; to promote the improvement of instruction; to work towards the improvement of teacher education and professional development; to develop and promote the adoption of such ethical practices, personnel policies, and standards of preparation and participation as mark a profession; to unify and strengthen the teaching profession and to secure and maintain the salaries, retirement, tenure, professional and sick leave, and other working conditions necessary to support teaching as a profession; to enable and encourage members to speak with a common voice on matters pertaining to the teaching profession and to present their individual and common interests before the board of education and other authorities to include but not limited to the building improvement committee; to hold property and funds, and to employ a staff for the attainment of these purposes.

Operating model

Revenue model
Membership-supported. 92% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
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: 23
  • Growth: 40

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: -40.3%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.47; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 16.5%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -1% per year; rating input score 0; 25th 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 · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.