West Chester Area Education Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 232671768
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- West Chester, PA, USA
- Phone
- 6104365599
- Rating
- 61
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $105,415
- Expenses
- $99,148
- Assets
- $219,452
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MICHELE CURAY KRAMER (PRESIDENT)
- SHAWN DZIELAWA (VICE PRESIDENT ES)
- JAMIE PECK (VICE PRESIDENT MS)
- CHRIS REYNA (VICE PRESIDENT HS)
Highest reported compensation
- PAULETTE TYKWINSKI (TREASURER): $8,877 total reported compensation
- MICHELE CURAY KRAMER (PRESIDENT): $7,877 total reported compensation
- SHAWN DZIELAWA (VICE PRESIDENT ES): $5,917 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To promote the general education welfare of the west chester area school district.
What it reported doing in 2024
Dress down days
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 79% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 44
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 47.9%; rating input score 48
- Program expense ratio: 51%; rating input score 51
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 4th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.9%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.21; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 38%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -17.3% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -27.4% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 47.9% of revenue deployed · 51% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $9K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 11 of 12 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 48/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 51/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.