Michigan Business Education Association

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 381849550
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2016–2025
Forms available: Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2014
Location: East China, MI, USA
Phone: 8102470133
Rating: 64
Verdict: SUPPORTED
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Professional Societies, Associations

Reported finances

Revenue: $32,300
Expenses: $31,647
Assets: $108,270
Liabilities: $0

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

COLLEEN WEBB (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

COLLEEN WEBB (PRESIDENT)
JOYCE E NEWTON (VP OF BUSINESS AND FINANCE)
PATRICIA PEARSON (VP OF MEMBERSHIP)

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

Improve education for and about business

What it reported doing in 2025

Convention - focus on activities that will improve instruction and learning in classrooms. Presenters come from Michigan and other states.

Operating model

Revenue model: Earned-program. 83% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and total assets are large relative to annual expenses, but may not be spendable cash. 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: 54
Transparency & Controls: 82
Sustainability: 60
Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 52.5%; rating input score 53
Program expense ratio: 55.5%; rating input score 55

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

Operating margin: 2%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.42; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: -5.7% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: -0.9% per year; rating input score 0; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: 9.9% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 52.5% of revenue deployed · 55.5% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $18K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
Schedules: 2 filed schedules
Filing history: 10 filing years from 2016 to 2025
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.

Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 53/100.
Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 55/100.
High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 48/100.
Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.