American Center for Education and Testing
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 522193942
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2014, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2028337522
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $54,142
- Expenses
- $54,142
- Assets
- $275,003
- Liabilities
- $1,423,834
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ms Lisa A Choate (President)
- Mr Michael Curtis (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Ms Anna K Domorad (Director)
- Ms Nataliya Ushakova (Director)
- Ms Lisa A Choate (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization is an international non-profit educational and academic exchange and testing organization devoted to educational testing and assessment and to improving education, professional training, and research in the United States, Eurasia, The Middle East, The Near East, Africa, and South, Central and East Asia.
What it reported doing in 2024
The American Center for Education and Testing (ACET) administers across Eurasia a wide range of tests for educational and professional purposes. Academic tests, such as the test of English as a foreign language (TOEFL), SAT, GRE, and many others are taken by students who wish to endure U.S. educational institutions or want a credential of their academic achievements. Other exams administered include professional exams including software and financial analyst certifications. Tests are administered regularly, some in paper-based formats and others through online delivery systems in permanent and temporary testing centers. Staff are trained in security and proctoring, and many have received certifications for test administration from the test developers. ACET's goal is to support international mobility of students and scholars by making available tests and systems so that students can pursue education and document their achievement on an international level.
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.08; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 5.18; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -21.8% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -22.4% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $54K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 45/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.