The Association for Biology Laboratory Education Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 363369740
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2010
- Location
- Claremont, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9096218607
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $83,165
- Expenses
- $92,361
- Assets
- $137,062
- Liabilities
- $46,067
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Mindy McCarville (Past-President/ President)
- Hans Lemke (President-Elect/ President)
- Swarna Mohan (1st Vice-President)
- Cassandra Debets (1st / 2nd Vice-President)
- Erica Homan (2nd Vice-President)
People named in this filing
- Mindy McCarville (Past-President/ President)
- Hans Lemke (President-Elect/ President)
- Swarna Mohan (1st Vice-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
Improving the undergraduate biology laboratory experience by promoting the development and dissemination of interesting, innovative, effective and reliable laboratory exercises.
What it reported doing in 2024
Conference: ABLE's annual conference was held during June 2025 at the University of Manitoba. At this three-day workshop-based conference, instructors present peer-reviewed hands-on innovations in biology laboratory instruction. Participants in these workshops leave knowing how to implement new laboratory activities because they are the students in each workshop, and they are provided with all the materials needed to successfully implement the new activities at their home institutions. Approximately 130 participants attended this conference. ABLE maintains an on-line archive of laboratory activities (www.ableweb.org) presented at our past workshop conferences as a permanent resource for faculty seeking materials and techniques for effective laboratory instruction. ABLE's 250 paying members have access to these materials and to past conference proceedings.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 65% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 88% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 93
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 96.9%; rating input score 97
- Program expense ratio: 87.2%; rating input score 87
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -11.1%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.48; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.34; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 96.9% of revenue deployed · 87.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $81K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.