Tri-State Water Resource Coalition
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 200391941
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2017, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Springfield, MO, USA
- Phone
- 4177661980
- Rating
- 39
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Water Resource, Wetlands Conservation and Management
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $67,771
- Expenses
- $13,127
- Assets
- $168,028
- Liabilities
- $75
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JASON CHOATE (VICE PRESIDENT)
- TRAVIS COSSEY (PRESIDENT)
- RODDY ROGERS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- SKIP SCHALLER (TREASURER)
- JASON CHOATE (VICE PRESIDENT)
- TRAVIS COSSEY (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Tri-state water resource coalition (tri-state water) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to secure adequate, affordable long term water supply in southwest Missouri.
What it reported doing in 2025
Adequate water supply is essential to life and the economic health and development of our communities. To fulfill the organization mission: - tri state has engaged in a series of studies to identify viable additional water supply and seek access to that supply to meet the needs of our member communities. -taking action to fulfill the requirements for development of those supplies. -notably, received coe/pentagon approval in january 2025, for a reallocation of water storage from stockton lake to meet about 2/3 of the projected need out to 2060. Strengthening the coalition: -early on, formed a joint municipal utility commission to implement the project. Education on water supply challenges and solutions: - developed and have given numerous comprehensive formal presentations to educate all stakeholders about water supply issues, and to facilitate the sharing of information about water issues. This includes federal and state legislators. - host an annual fall conference about water supply issues with Missouri state university since 2008.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 87% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 83
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 80.6%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 12.8; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.9% per year; rating input score 0; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.7% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 17 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 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 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.