Kent Educational Association

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 341325320
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2009–2025
Forms available: Form 990 2019, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location: Kent, OH, USA
Phone: 3306768856
Rating: 35
Verdict: REVIEW
Rating confidence: Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue: $60,639
Expenses: $56,601
Assets: $391,903

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

ROBERT SUSEL (President)
CHRIS VANDERNEUT (Vice President)
ELLEN BUDD (Vice President)
BRENT PFEIFFER (Vice President)

People named in this filing

ROBERT SUSEL (President)
CHRIS VANDERNEUT (Vice President)
ELLEN BUDD (Vice 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

To promote and encourage the highest standards of professional teaching practices. To serve as a bargaining agent and to provide legal funding to members.

What it reported doing in 2025

Legal and professional fees paid for negotiations as a bargaining agent for members.

Operating model

Revenue model: Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 0
Transparency & Controls: 82
Sustainability: 53
Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 0.2%; rating input score 0
Program expense ratio: 0.2%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

Operating margin: 6.7%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.92; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
Officer compensation ratio: 54.8%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: -0.5% per year; rating input score 0; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: -6% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: -7.1% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 0.2% of revenue deployed · 0.2% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 5 filed program accomplishments · $99 in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
Schedules: 1 filed schedules
Filing history: 6 filing years from 2009 to 2025
Contacts: How to reach this organization
Money network: 12 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.