American Council of Engineering Companies of New York Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 131816600
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Albany, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5184528611
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,457,708
- Expenses
- $3,405,291
- Assets
- $3,136,385
- Liabilities
- $828,908
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
34 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOHN EVERS (PRESIDENT)
- WILLIAM MURRAY (VICE PRESIDENT)
- GINA POTFORA (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JOHN EVERS (PRESIDENT): $258,251 total reported compensation
- WILLIAM MURRAY (VICE PRESIDENT): $158,752 total reported compensation
- GINA POTFORA (VICE PRESIDENT): $143,079 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
See mission statement listed in part i, line 1
What it reported doing in 2024
Member services-the organization affords the opportunity for members to meet and share ideas and information on providing quality engineering and land surveying services to their clients. The organization holds various membership meetings throughout the year. Additionally, the organization holds various continuing education seminars in order for members to maintain their licensing requirements. The organization also diseminates important information to its members on current affairs and legislation that may affect its members.the organization's hallmark is the annual engineering excellence awards (eea) program. Eea recognizes enginnering achievements that demostrates the highest degree of skill and ingenuity among its members. Eea's goal is to convey to the general public and other interested parties the contributions member firms make to the environment, their community and around the world through exceptional enginnering design. Eea awards are presented at an annual awards dinner. Member firms total approximately 250 with affiliated membership of approximately 40 firms.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 66
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.5%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.92; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.26; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 16.4%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 31 of 31 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $258K · 34 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 12 of 12 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 37/100.