Accrediting Commission International
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 710820356
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2023
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2016, Form 990-EZ 2023
- Location
- Beebe, AR, USA
- Phone
- 501-882-3361
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $136,755
- Expenses
- $125,877
- Assets
- $45,443
- Liabilities
- $270
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOHN F SCHEEL (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JOHN F SCHEEL (PRESIDENT)
- VICKI SCHEEL (VICE-PRESIDE)
- CARMEN CHAMBERS (SEC/ADMASSIS)
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 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Helping non-government regulated schools, colleges, and theological seminaries to have good educational processes, good educational processes to be better and better educational processes to be the best - one institution at a time.
What it reported doing in 2023
Accrediting commission international (aci) performs on-site studies and evaluations of member institutions and applicants as part of the accreditation process. Aci provides graduation services to member institutions in the form of diploma certifications and graduation supplies. During the current tax year, 10 member institutions were visited and 2 member institutions received graduation services.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 77% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.2%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 68.6%; rating input score 69
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.36; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.6%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4.6% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.9% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 63.2% of revenue deployed · 68.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $86K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2017 to 2023
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.