Maryland State Education Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 520607919
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2012
- Location
- Annapolis, MD, USA
- Phone
- 4102636600
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Labor Unions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $28,312,946
- Expenses
- $26,138,128
- Assets
- $59,256,326
- Liabilities
- $5,475,201
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
30 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PAUL LEMLE (PRESIDENT)
- ANZER NIKKI WOODWARD (VICE PRESIDENT)
- GERALDINE DUVAL (ASSISTANT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- SEAN JOHNSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- ADAM MENDELSON (ASSISTANT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- PAULA VOELKER (ASSISTANT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- SEAN JOHNSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $358,086 total reported compensation
- KRISTY ANDERSON (GENERAL COUNSEL): $313,698 total reported compensation
- SARAH WILKERSON (CFO): $294,246 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Standing up for good salaries and benefits, safe and modern working conditions, education policies that make sense for students, and the resources and support that every school in every neighborhood needs.
What it reported doing in 2024
Core operational services - msea will promote an environment to serve and support membership in an efficient and effective manner by hiring, training, educating and retaining qualified staff and leadership, implementing policy and procedures, safeguarding assets, accurately collect and process member contributions, complying with regulatory requirements in a timely manner and encouraging technological advancements.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 85% 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: 74
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 80%; rating input score 80; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 96.9%; rating input score 97; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 82.4%; rating input score 82; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.7%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.27; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.1%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 14 of 17 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $358K · 30 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $931K reported
- Consistency: 11 of 13 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 53 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 38 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.