New Jersey Education Association
Legal name: New Jersey Education Association (Group Return)
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 510209338
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Trenton, NJ, US
- Phone
- 1-609-599-4561
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $42,490,300
- Expenses
- $42,877,719
- Assets
- $43,797,289
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3573 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BARBARA B RHEAULT (PRESIDENT)
- MELISSA TOMLINSON (VICE PRESIDENT)
- BRENDA M BRATHWAITE (VICE PRESIDENT)
- SHERRI L LIEPE (PRESIDENT)
- KOREY T MORGENWECK (VICE PRESIDENT)
- ALICE M CARCILLI (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- BRIAN GEOFFROY (PRESIDENT): $195,464 total reported compensation
- JOE M TOMA (PRESIDENT): $97,573 total reported compensation
- MRS CHRISSY K KOSAR (PRESIDENT): $65,340 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 New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) advocates for educators, students, and public education in New Jersey.
What it reported doing in 2024
To assist all members in the economic, professional, and social advancement of their condition and status.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 61% 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: 65
- Accountability: 9
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: NotEnoughData
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; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: Limited
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.9%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.02; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 18.5%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- What they do: 6 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: 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $195K · 3573 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2204 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.