Missouri State Teachers Association

Legal name: Missouri State Teachers Association Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
430416410
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Columbia, MO, USA
Phone
800-392-0532
Rating confidence
Limited

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$6,973,552
Expenses
$7,587,247
Assets
$6,893,799
Liabilities
$4,217,007

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

Leadership & pay

28 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Stacy Blakley (Past President Through 11/17/24)
  • Pam Lowe (President)
  • Amy Kelsey (President Elect)
  • Bruce Moe (Executive Director/CEO)
  • Lana Moore (Vice President)

Highest reported compensation

  • Bruce Moe (Executive Director/CEO): $293,625 total reported compensation
  • Gail McCray (Legal Counsel): $212,268 total reported compensation
  • Todd Fuller (Director of Communication): $152,229 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 Missouri State Teachers Association is a grassroots independent professional organization that advocates and empowers public educators so they can teach.

What it reported doing in 2024

Education Media: MSTA is a trusted source of professional information for teachers, covering topics such as classroom management, working with parents, educational technology, testing, and more. To this end, MSTA published education-related information and research, as well as updates on current issues of interest and concern to Missouri teachers and other education personnel. Communication and marketing strategies include an online magazine and email newsletters; a comprehensive, informative website; social media posts; media outreach; blogs; podcasts; video; and direct mail. Specific accomplishments with online media include maintaining a 50%60% open rate across all online publications. In addition, MSTA publishes a weekly legislative e-newsletter, MSTA Action, with a 60%-70% open rate. MSTA also offers members-only legislative podcasts and video productions that provide insight into current legislative initiatives and a glimpse into weekly Capitol activity. Finally, MSTA provides Tillie to its members. Tillie is an online AI agent that provides members with information about the association and its work product, including detailed lesson plans, classroom rubrics, and information on school district policies and procedures.

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: 93
  • Accountability: 94
  • Sustainability: 22
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 6 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Pass
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Pass
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 89.5%; rating input score 89; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -8.8%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.91; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.61; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 12.6%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 13 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 17 of 19 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $294K · 28 people listed · 6 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 13 of 13 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 3 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.