Missouri Environmental Education Association

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
431488916
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2013, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Saint Louis, MO, USA
Phone
3143680500
Rating
87
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$113,392
Expenses
$93,530
Assets
$90,500
Liabilities
$1,525

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

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Ben Frieman (President)

People named in this filing

  • Ben Frieman (President)
  • Erin Graves (Treasurer)
  • Misty Mitchell (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Developing an environmentally responsible citizenry in Missouri through environmental education.

What it reported doing in 2025

General program and Support Services - In addition to the pillar programs, MEEA provides professional development and web-based resources for MEEA members and other environmental educators. These services range from online, asynchronous courses ("eeCourses") and in-person workshops, to a newsletter, website and webinars, to mini-grants for MEEA members and stipended projects available to Young Environmental Leaders (YEL) members ages 16-26. In 2025, MEEA's eeCourse catalog expanded to 5 available courses. Three courses were offered in 2025 and were attended by 21 nonformal educators, impacting over 10,500 learners. MEEA's Young Environmental Leader (YEL) membership grew to 30 members in 2025, and MEEA provided 6 of them with resume-building, stipended projects valued at $15/hour. Also in 2025, MEEA, in collaboration with 5 other State Affiliates of the North American Association for Environmental Education, completed and shared findings of an EE "landscape analysis", illuminating barriers and gaps in providing EE in schools and communities in Missouri.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 83% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 94% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Assets have declined or grown slowly and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 81
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 54
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 75.6%; rating input score 76
  • Program expense ratio: 90.2%; rating input score 90

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 17.5%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.97; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 55.6%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 10.6% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -2.5% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 75.6% of revenue deployed · 90.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $84K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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.

  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.