American International College
Overview
Mission
American international college provides access to a holistic education in an inclusive environment that propels a diverse community of learners to personal growth and professional success.
What it reported doing in 2024
Higher education: program service activities related to the institution's exempt purpose of providing educational services to approximately 2,326 students including scholarships and awards of $32,536,385, instructional services of $13,822,411, student services of $13,184,925, and library services of $887,185.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 89% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 48% for direct work, and 52% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 042103701
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Headquarters
- Springfield, MA, USA
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Universities
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 96
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.2%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 75.9%; rating input score 76
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.4 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
- Public monitoring controls: Limited
- Public policy transparency: Limited
- Public financial transparency: Limited
- Impact reporting controls: Limited
- Public relationship transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Public governance controls: Limited
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -11.9%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 1.06; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.36; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.8%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.6% per year; rating input score 100; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.2% of revenue deployed · 75.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $62.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $246K · 29 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 annual filings from 2009 to 2024
- Money network: 9 filed money-flow records