Ej Water Cooperative Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 371250091
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Dieterich, IL, USA
- Phone
- 2179255566
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $21,220,893
- Expenses
- $16,588,103
- Assets
- $142,228,968
- Liabilities
- $78,304,550
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JASON WARFEL (PRESIDENT)
- MICHAEL HALL (VICE PRESIDENT)
- WILLIAM TEICHMILLER (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- WILLIAM TEICHMILLER (CEO): $338,296 total reported compensation
- STEPHANIE WESTENDORF (EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT): $151,852 total reported compensation
- WILLIAM ALLRED (COO): $147,401 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Ej water cooperative is dedicated to providing clean water to rural homes in effingham, jasper, clark, clay, cumberland, edwards, richland, sangamon, shelby, fayette, crawford, christian, montgomery, and bond counties. The cooperative also provides contract billing, reporting, accounting, and mapping services to local governments and nonprofit organizations. The cooperative's wholly ones subsidary provides wastewater services to residential, commercial and industrial customers in effingham, cumberland, macon, and montgomery counties.
What it reported doing in 2024
Operation of rural water system and sanitary sewer in effingham, jasper, clark, clay, cumberland, edwards, richland, sangamon, shelby, fayette, crawford, christian, montgomery, and bond counties of Illinois. Over 14,000 individual customers and 14 community water suppliers that have their own distribution systems.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 80% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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: 60
- Accountability: 86
- Sustainability: 73
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- 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; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 21.8%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 8.57; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.55; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.6%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $338K · 16 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $884K reported
- Consistency: 10 of 10 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 14 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 38/100.