St Louis Teachers Recycle Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 431633512
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2016, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Ballwin, MO, USA
- Phone
- 6362277095
- Rating
- 44
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Recycling Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $82,900
- Expenses
- $91,662
- Assets
- $73,779
- Liabilities
- $8,008
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SUSAN BLANDFORD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- Mary Meadows (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- SUSAN BLANDFORD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- Mary Meadows (PRESIDENT)
- Linda Haley (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
Collection Center for safe & reusable pr
What it reported doing in 2025
The St Louis Teachers Recycle Center (STLRC) is a collection center for safe, reusable industrial by-products. STLRC recycles these items into schools and day care centers to enhan
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 3
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 2.9%; rating input score 3
- Program expense ratio: 2.1%; rating input score 2
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -10.6%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.8; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 28.6%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -25.5% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6.6% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 2.9% of revenue deployed · 2.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $2K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 3/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.