Wilkes-barre Area Education Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 232286997
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Wilkesbarre, PA, USA
- Phone
- 5708295534
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $53,549
- Expenses
- $62,745
- Assets
- $236,134
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DR MICHAEL KOMOREK (PRESIDENT)
- ANNIE ROOD (1ST VICE PRESIDENT)
- KEVIN SICKLE (2ND VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- DR MICHAEL KOMOREK (PRESIDENT): $500 total reported compensation
- ANNIE ROOD (1ST VICE PRESIDENT): $500 total reported compensation
- KEVIN SICKLE (2ND VICE PRESIDENT): $500 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Labor organization focused on teaching and sound educational programs.
What it reported doing in 2024
Represents members in a collective contract bargaining unit, promotes quality teaching and sound educational programs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 81% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Accountability: 68
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -17.2%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.76; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.4% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 16 of 16 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $500 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.