Waste Water Education Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 200042087
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Traverse City, MI, USA
- Phone
- 2312331806
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Water Resource, Wetlands Conservation and Management
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $71,305
- Expenses
- $44,483
- Assets
- $66,065
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Dendra Best (Executive Director and CFO)
People named in this filing
- Ben Kele (Board Chair)
- Oliver Grievson (Vice Board Chair)
- Lesley Desjardins (Board Secretary)
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
Statement of Program Service Accomplishments: Statement of Purpose: Independent. Impartial. We provide access to information to empower sustainable, local, wastewater decision making. Our Purpose: To provide education which increases public awareness of the link between clean drinking water, safe recreational waters, environmentally sustainable surface and groundwater with watershed based, best management practices related to appropriate wastewater systems, technology, treatment and management. Water is Water - NOT waste!
What it reported doing in 2024
Online Continuing Education credit classes for multiple States. Total hours served 1382 + 3 day live training. $31872.19 reflects online Continuing Education classes provided to Ohio, Michigan, Virginia, Wisconsin, Oregon and other individual States for professional Development. Topics include safety, installation and servicing of onsite wastewater systems. Water and WasteWater Conference presentation - $883 Fiscal Sponsorship for Operators Without Borders - providing disaster response and management training. Serving multiple developing countries and the Caribbean $2260
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 93% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 59
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 47.9%; rating input score 48
- Program expense ratio: 76.7%; rating input score 77
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 37.6%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.49; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 47.2%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 31.6% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.8% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 27.6% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 47.9% of revenue deployed · 76.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $34K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 48/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.