Harrisburg Education Association

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
251628605
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2017, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Dillsburg, PA, USA
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$53,792
Expenses
$68,406
Assets
$267,144

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Jody Barksdale (President)
  • Chantal Waters-Maddox (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Jody Barksdale (President)
  • Chantal Waters-Maddox (Vice President)
  • Allison Burris (Secretary)

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

During the year the Harrisburg Education Association HEA successfully bargained a collective bargaining agreement on behalf of its approximately 500 members ensuring fair wages benefits and working conditions for educators within the district. HEA also organized and provided professional development opportunities and training sessions designed to support instructional excellence educator growth and leadership development. Additionally the Association recognized and celebrated the achievements of teachers in the bargaining unit through awards public acknowledgments and events that highlight professional accomplishments and dedication to student success.

What it reported doing in 2025

The Union sponsored member participation in professional training and education conferences to promote best practices in teaching leadership and education policy. These activities enhanced educators professional skills while strengthening union engagement through increased knowledge of labor rights advocacy and collective action. Conference participation supported leadership development member involvement and the effective representation of educators advancing the Unions mission and organizational capacity.If you want it even tighter e.g. one or two sentences only or tailored to IRS primary purpose language I can refine further.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 79
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 33
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 86%; rating input score 86
  • Program expense ratio: 67.4%; rating input score 67

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -27.2%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.91; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 20.5%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 63.4% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -8% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -2.9% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 86% of revenue deployed · 67.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $46K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
  • 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 18/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.