Massachusetts Water Environment Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 043068730
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Woburn, MA, USA
- Phone
- 7819390908
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Pollution Abatement and Control Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $93,332
- Expenses
- $76,404
- Assets
- $126,911
- Liabilities
- $711
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Denise Descheneau (President)
People named in this filing
- Denise Descheneau (President)
- Mary Barry (Clerk)
- Peter Lyons (Director)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Education and training of wastewater treatment plant operators and collection system operators, along with exchange of information between the two groups.
What it reported doing in 2024
Education & training of wastewater treatment plant operators and collection system operators along with exchange of information between the two groups. Representation of group with regulatory agencies and environmental stewardship.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 67% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 66.1%; rating input score 66
- Program expense ratio: 80.7%; rating input score 81
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 18.1%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.66; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.1% per year; rating input score 0; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 66.1% of revenue deployed · 80.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $62K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.