Workers Compensation Education Association

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
841025242
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Grand Junction, CO, USA
Phone
9702422500
Rating
48
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$119,890
Expenses
$104,256
Assets
$87,055
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

17 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Mark Elliott (Past President)
  • Joanna Jensen (Executive Director)
  • Stephanie Tucker (President)
  • Erin Montomery (President Elect)
  • Stephan Marsh (Past President)
  • Aaron Kennedy (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Mark Elliott (Past President)
  • Joanna Jensen (Executive Director)
  • Stephanie Tucker (President)

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

Our primary purpose is to insure our members are fully educated on all statutes, rules, case-law and court rulings that govern the practice of Workers Compensation in Colorado and that members are updated on changes as they occur. We accomplish this by providing 20 to 35 hours of Continuing Legal Education each year, as well as providing access for members to several databases on topics necessary to practice Workers' Compensation law at an advanced level.

What it reported doing in 2025

We provide continuous updates on statutory and regulatory changes through our online List Serve, website and membership meetings. This includes analysis of said statutes and regulations and how they may be used to benefit injured workers. The entire membership benefits.

Operating model

Revenue model
Membership-supported. 71% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. 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: 3
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 55
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 2.9%; rating input score 3
  • Program expense ratio: 3.4%; rating input score 3

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: 13%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.84; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 28.8%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -3.9% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 2.9% of revenue deployed · 3.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $4K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 17 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 3/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 3/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.