Accountability Works Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 043563206
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Bethesda, MD, USA
- Phone
- 3015719452
- Rating
- 39
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Centers to Support the Independence of Specific Populations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $9,793
- Expenses
- $17,349
- Assets
- $24,629
- Liabilities
- $1,685
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Theodor Rebarber (CEO and Board Member)
People named in this filing
- Theodor Rebarber (CEO and Board Member)
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
Dedicated to assisting educator's parents, and policymakers interested in quality assessments and research-based policies and practices.
What it reported doing in 2024
Private Contract Program - Expenses related mainly to EPAS (currently known as CELLA) to test English proficiency for elementary and secondary students. Consortium of 5 states.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 8
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 10%; rating input score 10
- Program expense ratio: 5.6%; rating input score 6
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -77.2%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.42; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -142.7% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 10% of revenue deployed · 5.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $978 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- 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 10/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.