South Texas Section of the Society of Plastics Engineers Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 746062884
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Crocker, MO, USA
- Phone
- 4095504865
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Engineering
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $623,144
- Expenses
- $607,256
- Assets
- $528,735
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Preston McDaniel (President)
- Jason Ball (President Elect)
Highest reported compensation
- Janell Helton (Section Coordinator): $23,691 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 mission of the South Texas Section is to promote scientific & engineering knowledge relating to plastics.
What it reported doing in 2024
Education: Providing grants/scholarships for tuition and books for college and high school students. Assist PhD candidates with research & equipment. All of which promotes the field of study in engineering.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 63
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 97.5%; rating input score 97
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.5%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.87; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.9%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.9% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 95% of revenue deployed · 97.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $592K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $24K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 13 of 13 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 44/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 55/100.