Florida Association of School Safety Specialists
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 922687278
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Tallahassee, FL, USA
- Phone
- 8505775784
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Public Safety, Disaster Preparedness & Relief N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $844,344
- Expenses
- $707,315
- Assets
- $375,330
- Liabilities
- $128,515
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
22 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOHN HUNKIAR (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- MICHAEL BAUMAISTER JR (VICE PRESIDENT)
- CORINA PUTT (PRESIDENT)
- WILLIAM J MONTFORD III (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- WILLIAM J MONTFORD III (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $373,774 total reported compensation
- DAVID SIKES (OFFICER OF RELATED ORG.): $180,175 total reported compensation
- DAVID MERRILL WIMBERLEY (CFO OF RELATED ORG.): $117,814 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Florida association of school safety specialists (fs3) will provide a not-for-profit, public purpose organization to serve as an instrumentality of, and an agent for, school safety specialists in the state of Florida. It is a non-political, non-partisan organization to aid and assist school district school safety specialists to carry out their public purpose of preventing violence on school grounds and functions by educating and providing certified training opportunities; advocate for district school safety specialists in accordance with state and federal law; and cooperatively work with public officials, public organizations, private citizens, and private organizations locally, statewide, and nationally to stimulate and encourage program development enhancing the above stated aims.
What it reported doing in 2024
Fs3 held its annual Florida school safety summit in june 2024. The conference focused on the importance the state of Florida places on keeping all schools safe. The event's theme was "partnerships in school security and mental health." it emphasized the importance of school safety professionals working alongside their mental health professional counterparts. The summit featured an expo hall which included school safety exhibitors and various service providers who provided information about products and services that could potentially benefit district security and mental health initiatives. Approximately 305 attendees, of which approximately 80 were school safety specialists, attended this inaugural conference.
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
- 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: 65
- Accountability: 47
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 60
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; 63rd 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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 72.7%; rating input score 73; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 11
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 16.2%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.53; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.34; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 29.8%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 43.8% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.8% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 16 of 22 board members independent · 1 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $374K · 22 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 11 of 11 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.