Virginia Community Colleges Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 541230446
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Lynchburg, VA, USA
- Phone
- 4348327292
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $145,704
- Expenses
- $154,693
- Assets
- $13,876
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Wanda Davis-Alves (President Elect)
- Donna Minnich (Past President/Parliamentaran)
- Lisa Shifflet McDaniel (President)
People named in this filing
- Wanda Davis-Alves (President Elect)
- Donna Minnich (Past President/Parliamentaran)
- Lisa Shifflet McDaniel (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To enrich community college education primarily through professional development activities by: fostering a climate of professional development and growth and providing a medium of exchange of information, issues, opportunities encouraging the climate of excellence in the delivery of teaching and learning in higher education.
What it reported doing in 2024
Annual Conference supplies/Remembrances/Refunds/Awards/Scholarships to members/Donations to Charity/Cash for Change at Conference: The association holds their annual conference in the fall each year which provides the membership the opportunity for professional development activities with their peers across the State of Virginia. Members network and communicate on subjects ranging from broad philosophical issues and more pragmatic aspects of educational programs and services of the Virginia Community College System. The annual conference is held at a conference center for three days, guest speakers are hired and concurrent sessions. Presenters are recruited to share professional development ideas. The association budgets funds for grant proposals by the membership to help fray expenses for speakers. The association's expenses include supplies, remembrance gifts to outgoing president, refunds for cancellations or overpayments, for meeting room charges, incentive attendees packets, honorariums, for site expenses and meals during the conference, scholarship to staff and faculty members to attend statewide professional development opportunities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 69% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 18
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: Limited
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6.2%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.09; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 68.8% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 40.5% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -32.5% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $155K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 39 of 39 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.