Wyoming Education Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 830168105
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Cheyenne, WY, USA
- Phone
- 3076347991
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,456,088
- Expenses
- $3,402,848
- Assets
- $4,418,541
- Liabilities
- $294,750
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
26 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KIM AMEN (PRESIDENT)
- DIRK ANDREWS (VICE PRESIDENT)
- VICKI SWENSON (WEA RETIRED PRESIDENT)
- LAURA STADTFELD (CENTRAL REGION PRESIDENT)
- SARAH HUMMEL (NE REGION PRESIDENT)
- MICHELLE ROOKS (NW REGION PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- GRADY HUTCHERSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $208,905 total reported compensation
- RON SNIFFIN (SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS): $191,774 total reported compensation
- KIM AMEN (PRESIDENT): $84,484 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 advance public education at all levels by creating equitable educational opportunity for all learners; promoting the highest quality standards for the profession; and expanding the rights and furthering the interests of education personnel.
What it reported doing in 2024
Promote policies and practices that are designed to (1) create teaching/learning conditions that will close achievement gaps, increase graduation rates, and provide a quality education for all students, and (2) recruit and retain a quality workforce by improving the compensation, retirement benefits, and other working conditions of education employees, advancing their professional interests and addressing their concerns about social justice.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 60
- Accountability: 80
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.3%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 81.7%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.5%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.3; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14.3%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.5% per year; rating input score 100; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 82.3% of revenue deployed · 81.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 22 of 24 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $2.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $209K · 26 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.