Massachusetts Teachers Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 041591200
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Quincy, MA, USA
- Phone
- 6178788309
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $63,359,031
- Expenses
- $68,247,010
- Assets
- $143,490,142
- Liabilities
- $42,551,711
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
81 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MAX PAGE (PRESIDENT)
- DEBORAH MCCARTHY (VICE PRESIDENT)
- MIKE FADEL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & TREASURER)
Highest reported compensation
- MIKE FADEL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & TREASURER): $339,202 total reported compensation
- BRENDAN SHARKEY (DIRECTOR OF FIELD AND ORGANIZING): $312,288 total reported compensation
- BETH EVERS (CFO): $283,457 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Massachusetts teachers association is a member-driven organization, governed by democratic principles, that accepts and supports the interdependence of professionals and unionism. The mta promotes the use of its members' collective powers to advance their professional and economic interests. The mta is committed to human and civil rights and advocates for quality public education in an environment in which lifelong learning and innovation flourish.
What it reported doing in 2024
Other program activities include those supporting local associations and members, including governmental services, grassroots campaigns, communications, governance and administration, educational policy and traning and professional learning.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 96% 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: 60
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- 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: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: 52.7%; rating input score 53; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 97.2%; rating input score 97; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.1; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.3; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.3%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 69 of 71 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $339K · 81 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $3M reported
- Consistency: 13 of 14 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 17 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 9 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Document-retention policy not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 56/100.