Ohio · Nonprofit
ASSOCIATION FOR MIDDLE LEVEL EDUCATION
ASSOCIATION FOR MIDDLE LEVEL EDUCATION (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $448,070 to it, the largest being MASSACHUSETTS HIGHER EDUCATION ASSISTANCE CORPORATION ($185,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $448k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Association for Middle Level Education does
Mission
The Association for Middle Level Education is dedicated to improving the educational experiences of all students ages 10-15 by providing vision, knowledge and resources to educators and leaders.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Annual conference - holds annual conference for educators involved in middle level education.
$889,245 spent$1,392,255 earned by the program36% of program spendingMembership/subscriptions - offer annual memberships to existing, past and prespective members in middle level education. Offer journals and newsletters to members and subscribers regarding middle level education.
$184,275 spent$503,709 earned by the program7% of program spendingProfessional development - provides workshops, onsite classes, school assessment tools and online resources regarding middle level education.
$1,389,182 spentof which $17,000 as grants$1,354,412 earned by the program56% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,462,702.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $1.6M to $925k (−43%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Stephanie Simpson
CEO
Board chair
Stephanie Patton
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $85k → $55k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ASSOCIATION FOR MIDDLE LEVEL EDUCATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ASSOCIATION FOR MIDDLE LEVEL EDUCATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
51% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ASSOCIATION FOR MIDDLE LEVEL EDUCATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 71% · 2020 58% · 2021 100% · 2022 86% · 2023 73% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
ASSOCIATION FOR MIDDLE LEVEL EDUCATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $70 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Government funding ASSOCIATION FOR MIDDLE LEVEL EDUCATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $595 on record.
- ASSOC DUES AND CONF FEES$595
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ASSOCIATION FOR MIDDLE LEVEL EDUCATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ASSOCIATION FOR MIDDLE LEVEL EDUCATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR MIDDLE LEVEL EDUCATION?
- ASSOCIATION FOR MIDDLE LEVEL EDUCATION (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $448,070 to it, the largest being MASSACHUSETTS HIGHER EDUCATION ASSISTANCE CORPORATION ($185,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASSOCIATION FOR MIDDLE LEVEL EDUCATION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $448,070 in grants to ASSOCIATION FOR MIDDLE LEVEL EDUCATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASSOCIATION FOR MIDDLE LEVEL EDUCATION?
- MASSACHUSETTS HIGHER EDUCATION ASSISTANCE CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $185,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASSOCIATION FOR MIDDLE LEVEL EDUCATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing