Education Association of St Lucie Llc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 590213252
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Fort Pierce, FL, USA
- Phone
- 7724646430
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,408,795
- Expenses
- $1,196,171
- Assets
- $685,777
- Liabilities
- $16,093
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- E DAVID FREELAND (PRESIDENT)
- REBECCA PETRIE (VICE PRESIDENT-CTA)
- JENNIFER KINKADE (VICE PRESIDENT - PROTECH)
Highest reported compensation
- E DAVID FREELAND (PRESIDENT): $100,324 total reported compensation
- REBECCA PETRIE (VICE PRESIDENT-CTA): $85,998 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 work for the continuous improvement of instruction in st. Lucie county toward the end that every child obtains the best education that the community can offer. To establish the active participation of our members in the formulation of educational policies, and to promote the highest standard of professional practices. To advance the economic and professional interests of our members through formal negotiations with the st. Lucie county school board. To protect our members' rights whenever necessary. To guarantee our members' rights to due process. To make our members aware of their political responsibilities. To cooperate to the fullest extent with the labor movement and to work for a progressive labor philosophy to awaken in all members a labor consciousness and a sense of solidarity with labor. To seek relationships with other organizations to promote the public school system.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization is a teachers union whose purpose is to advocate for the betterment of teachers
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% 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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.7%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 91.7%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: $0 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15.1%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.57; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.6%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -11.8% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4.8% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 77.7% of revenue deployed · 91.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $100K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.