Wisconsin Association for Environmental Education Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 391390520
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Stevens Point, WI, USA
- Phone
- 4147390617
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $99,775
- Expenses
- $97,262
- Assets
- $114,610
- Liabilities
- $13,456
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- HANNAH BUNTING (President)
- RACHAEL LEWANDOWSKI-SARETTE (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- SKYLAR PRIMM (Director)
- HANNAH BUNTING (President)
- MEGAN GIEFER-SCHIMMEL (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
To promote responsible environmental action through education in the classroom and in the community.
What it reported doing in 2024
The Wisconsin Association for Environmental Education is a member-based, professional community of individuals and organizations with diverse backgrounds that promotes responsible environmental action, elevates voices for environmental justice, and celebrates excellence in environmental education. WAEE's Annual Conference 2024, Awareness to Action, featured the introduction of WAEE's first Executive Director, a statewide in-person advocacy panel, a variety of virtual and in-person networking opportunities, and formally recognized youth and professionals making notable impacts in the field. During its annual awards program, WAEE hosts the statewide K-12 Energy Educator and U.S. Green Ribbon Schools awardees, as well. WAEE's Annual Conference is its largest fundraiser in 2024, WAEE welcomed over 150 participants from throughout Wisconsin and neighboring states.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
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: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.6%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 83.7%; rating input score 84
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.5%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.18; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 35%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81.6% of revenue deployed · 83.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $81K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 50/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.