Aerospace & Flight Test Radio Coordinating Council
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 954409575
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2014
- Forms available
- Form 990 2013, Form 990-EZ 2014
- Location
- Wichita, KS, USA
- Phone
- 3168219516
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $191,577
- Expenses
- $114,154
- Assets
- $5,088
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2014. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
People named in this filing
- Thomas Fagan (Exec Comm Mem)
- Joseph Cramer (Vice Chair)
- Don Barnett (Secretary)
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 2014. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To advance the arts and sciences of radio communications and control, and the orderly and efficient allocation and utilization of the elctromagnetic spectrum, as connected or employed in aeronautical and space flight, evaluation of vehicles, spacecraft, related devices or major components thereof or as may otherwise affect the interest of the aerospace industry.
What it reported doing in 2014
Legal council/research activities - Counsel and research aimed at FCC rule-making proceedings and legislative actions involving the protection and preservation of radio spectrum used for flight testing; counsel for consultations held with Department of State, Department of Commerce, Department of Defense and the NTIA. The advice and guidance of counsel is available to the entire membership on matters of mutual concern. These activities benefited the membership, the flight test community, manufacturers of aircraft and their major components and the aviation industry.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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 total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 60
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 48.3%; rating input score 48
- Program expense ratio: 81.1%; rating input score 81
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 40.4%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.04; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -7% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -11.3% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 48.3% of revenue deployed · 81.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $93K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
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 48/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.