State College Area Education Association

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
251236093
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2017, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2020
Location
State College, PA, USA
Rating
50
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$110,612
Expenses
$111,283
Assets
$121,844

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

Leadership & pay

27 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Shai McGowan (President)
  • Eugene Ruocchio (Past President)
  • Jeremy Beers (Middle Level Vice President)
  • Allison Becker (Secondary Level Vice President)
  • Colleen Sheehan (Elementary Level Co-Vice President)
  • Jennifer Cody (Elementary Level Co-Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Shai McGowan (President)
  • Lesa Yeager (Admin Asst)
  • Eugene Ruocchio (Past President)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Promote the general educational welfare of the community to protected and advance the interests of the teaching profession to foster professional zeal to advance educational standards and establish and maintain helpful and friendly relationship with the community at large. The Association shall be responsive to input from and represent any individual member or minority group in the pursuit of above.

What it reported doing in 2024

Public Relations to establish maintain and promote the general educational welfare of the community and maintain a helpful and friendly relationship with the community at large

Operating model

Revenue model
Membership-supported. 91% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
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 and program spending has grown recently. 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: 22
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 33
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 22.8%; rating input score 23
  • Program expense ratio: 18.7%; rating input score 19

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -0.6%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.09; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 72.2%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 24.2% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 22.8% of revenue deployed · 18.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $21K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 27 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • 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 23/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 19/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.