Washington Science Teachers Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237115030
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Vancouver, WA, USA
- Phone
- 3607986200
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Elementary, Secondary Education, K - 12
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $77,729
- Expenses
- $67,499
- Assets
- $238,252
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
27 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JONATHAN FROSTAD (PRESIDENT)
- COLLEEN LAMOTTE (PRESIDENT-EL)
People named in this filing
- JONATHAN FROSTAD (PRESIDENT)
- ANDREA AMES (TREASURER)
- AYLA WILK (RECORDING SE)
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
The Washington science teachers association is a non-profit organization dedicated to advocating and promoting quality science education at all levels of instruction through promoting professional knowledge and growth, maintaining an ongoing communication network for science educators, exploring and supporting curriculum development, recognizing and awarding excellence, creating public awareness of the importance of quality science education, and forming an organized voice on pertinent legislative policies and issues.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provide learning opportunities for teachers by planning and holding a conference offering professional development opportunities for teachers. Also offering clock hours for teachers' professional development, and other activities designed to encourage and enable quality science teaching.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 86% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.2%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 82.9%; rating input score 83
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13.2%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.53; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 71.2% of revenue deployed · 82.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $56K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 27 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- 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.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.