Environmental Education Assn of Illinois
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 362837731
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Urbana, IL, USA
- Phone
- 2176902683
- Rating
- 55
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $100,406
- Expenses
- $135,976
- Assets
- $92,631
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BREKKE BOUNDS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- LIZZIE VAN ERT (PRESIDENT)
- SUSIE GRANA INGRAM (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- BREKKE BOUNDS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- LIZZIE VAN ERT (PRESIDENT)
- SUSIE GRANA INGRAM (IMMEDIATE PAST 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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Entity is organized and operates exclusively to assist and improve environmental education.
What it reported doing in 2025
Meeting expenses for annual and regional conferences held for the benefit of environmnetal educators, as well as public relations brochures and awards provided.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 22
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 24.7%; rating input score 25
- Program expense ratio: 18.2%; rating input score 18
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -35.4%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.68; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 24.1%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.2% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.3% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 24.7% of revenue deployed · 18.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $25K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 25/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 18/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.