Acec California Los Angeles County Chapter
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 953022961
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Oceanside, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9498429797
- Rating
- 59
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $179,629
- Expenses
- $155,787
- Assets
- $334,685
- Liabilities
- $7,235
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANDREW NICKERSON (PRESIDENT)
- JEFF GAVAZZA (VICE PRESIDENT)
- WALTER OKITSU (PAST PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ANDREW NICKERSON (PRESIDENT)
- SEAN SILOS (TREASURER)
- JEFF GAVAZZA (VICE PRESIDENT)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To enhance the business opportunities of the consulting engineering and land surveying professions and serve its members by offering continuing education programs, to provide scholarships to college students in engineering degree programs.
What it reported doing in 2024
To raise money and provide scholarships to college students with engineering majors
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 81% 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 58% for direct work, and 42% for grants.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 32
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 34.2%; rating input score 34
- Program expense ratio: 39.4%; rating input score 39
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 84.6%; rating input score 85; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13.3%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.15; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5.5% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 34.2% of revenue deployed · 39.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $61K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 19 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 22 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 34/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 39/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 39/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.