Professional Association of Georgia Educators Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
581242566
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Atlanta, GA, USA
Phone
7702168555
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$14,417,935
Expenses
$11,069,447
Assets
$34,046,337
Liabilities
$3,031,665

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

Leadership & pay

22 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DAERZIO HARRIS (PRESIDENT)
  • DR BRECCA POPE (PRESIDENT-EL)

Highest reported compensation

  • CRAIG A HARPER (EXECUTIVE DI): $290,811 total reported compensation
  • JILL HAY (GENERAL COUN): $202,710 total reported compensation
  • MARGARET CICCARELLI (EMPLOYEE): $177,544 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

As Georgia's largest educator association, page exists to inform, protect, and empower our members to teach, lead, and inspire Georgia's children. Page serves teachers, administrators, paraprofessionals, and other school personnel in Georgia, and page members serve in schools in every city and county school system throughout Georgia. Page was founded in 1975 by a small group of educators who believed that a professional educator focuses on the best interests of children and works in a professional manner for positive results. Page was established as an independent, non-partisan association that values the right of every educator to freely choose his or her professional affiliations. In addition to unmatched legislative advocacy and legal protection, page provides professional learning to enhance competence and confidence, build leadership, and increase student achievement.

What it reported doing in 2024

Professional learning offers numerous in-person learning sessions with page members focused on designing engaging work for students, building quality relationships with students, staff, and community, and mission-driven leadership. The cohorts include fall, spring, and summer sessions in the page office, as well as one college of education cohort.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 91% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 80% for direct work, 12% for grants, and 8% for member benefits.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 69
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 73
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 68.4%; rating input score 68
  • Program expense ratio: 94.4%; rating input score 94
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Pass
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 23.2%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.08; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 10.3%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 14.6% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 68.4% of revenue deployed · 94.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 16 of 16 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $10.4M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $291K · 22 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $152K reported
  • Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes grants and 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: 2 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.