Mea-professional Staff Association

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
386151450
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
East Lansing, MI, USA
Rating
75
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$72,224
Expenses
$46,947
Assets
$348,011

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CAPALENE HOWSE (PRESIDENT)
  • KEITH SAUTER (VICE-PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • CAPALENE HOWSE (PRESIDENT)
  • KEITH SAUTER (VICE-PRESIDENT)
  • BRENDA ORTEGA (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To advocate and defend the contracts of our members

What it reported doing in 2024

Advocacy and defense - grievance chair stipend and expenses bargaining chair stipend and expenses

Operating model

Revenue model
Membership-supported. 94% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
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 total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 68
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 66
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 57.8%; rating input score 58
  • Program expense ratio: 84.7%; rating input score 85

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 35%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.41; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 72.2%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 57.8% of revenue deployed · 84.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $40K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 7 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 58/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.