Virginia Geographic Alliance

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
542017618
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2009–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Williamsburg, VA, USA
Phone
5738258256
Rating
87
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Educational Services and Schools - Other

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$104,799
Expenses
$108,727
Assets
$13,726

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

People named in this filing

  • ANNE EVANS (STATE COORID)
  • JOHN BUNIN (STATE COORID)
  • SHANNON WHITE (TREASURER)

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

The Virginia geographic alliance (vga) is a non-profit organization supported by the national geographic society endowment program. The vga conducts a statewide educational outreach program that helps teachers and students to improve geography teaching and learning. Vga's mission is to improve the quality and quantity of geography teaching and learning at all levels of the Virginia education system. Geography education is an essential component of a sound liberal education for personal development, effective citizenship and the application of general critical thinking skills and specific geospatial thinking skills in many current and emerging careers.

What it reported doing in 2024

The Virginia georgraphic alliance (vga) has conducted hundreds of professional development activities for teachers and pre-service teachers. These activities range from three-week field based summer institutes (an average of one summer institute per year) to one-hour workshops on basic themes and skills in geography. The vga has produced numerous curriculum projects including Virginia in the world wall, desk maps, and lesson plans, and two editions of an atlas of Virginia with accompanying lesson plans and resource cd.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 92% 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 99
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 17
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 96.9%; rating input score 97

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -3.7%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.13; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 14.7%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -1.3% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 96.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $105K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.