State Troopers Association of Nebraska Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 470663038
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Lincoln, NE, USA
- Phone
- 4024892081
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $691,810
- Expenses
- $542,654
- Assets
- $952,476
- Liabilities
- $25,800
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JAMES ESTWICK (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JAMES ESTWICK (PRESIDENT): $12,273 total reported compensation
- NICHOLAS JAWORSKI (TREASURER): $5,471 total reported compensation
- LUCAS BOLTON (LEGISLATIVE): $4,100 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To represent and promote Nebraska state troopers. To provide a unified voice for Nebraska's troopers regarding public safety issues, professional law enforcement concerns and legislative initiatives. To enchance communication among troopers about duty experiences while strenthening their resolve to seek continued workplace improvements as a means of attracting and retaining highly qualified and motivated individuals to be Nebraska state troopers.
What it reported doing in 2024
The association lobbies and provides information to the Nebraska legislature to promote the general welfare of its members. The association will assist in drafting, reviewing and promoting state statutes and regulations which affect its members.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 68% for direct work, and 32% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 14
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.3%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 96.7%; rating input score 97; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 21.6%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.76; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.9%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.6% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.2% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 79.3% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 15 board members independent · 3 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $12K · 17 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 28 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 18 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: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 40/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 59/100.