Virginia Association for Environmental Education

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
300883594
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Herndon, VA, USA
Phone
0000000000
Rating
39
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Professional Societies, Associations

Reported finances

Revenue
$168,547
Expenses
$121,312
Assets
$82,817
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Ashley Palmer (Executive Director)
  • Bianca Myrick (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Ashley Palmer (Executive Director)
  • Tara Poelzing (Director of Professional Learning)
  • Kasey Greene Dutrow (Outreach and Communications Coordinator)

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

Virginia Association for Environmental Education VAEE advances environmental literacy in Virginia for all Virginians by promoting excellence fostering collaboration and inspiring community engagement During the 2025 year VAEE grew in capacity continuing to transition from a volunteer-led organization to one led by dedicated staff VAEE provided a robust state-wide environmental education conference engaged in systems level change work with school divisions and engaged more than 80 candidates in our environmental education certification program The collaborative work we do with schools had more than 40 school divisions and environmental education partners engaged in developing systemic approaches to environmental education for children within their communities and schools

What it reported doing in 2025

0

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 62% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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: 61
  • Growth: 60

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; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 28%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.68; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 42.8%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 28.7% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 36.8% per year; rating input score 100; 89th 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 · 13 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.