Arce
Legal name: American Research Center in Egypt Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 042319500
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Chatham, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 7037213479
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Studies
- Affiliation
- Islam
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,770,811
- Expenses
- $4,275,318
- Assets
- $102,313,474
- Liabilities
- $18,386,613
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
26 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LOUISE BERTINI (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR(TERM.12/24))
- DENISE DOXEY (PRESIDENT)
- DAVID ANDERSON (FORMER PRESIDENT(TERM. 04/25))
- STEPHANIE DENKOWICZ (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- CHRISTINA DIMEGLIO LOPEZ (US DIRECTOR (TERM.07/25)): $179,373 total reported compensation
- NICHOLAS WARNER (DIRECTOR OF CULTURAL HERITAGE): $172,704 total reported compensation
- LOUISE BERTINI (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR(TERM.12/24)): $171,893 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To support research into Egypt's rich history and the preservation of its cultural heritage.
What it reported doing in 2024
Promotion and preservation of antiquities - the american research center in egypt is committed to helping egypt preserve its rich cultural heritage for the benefit of future generations worldwide. In collaboration with egypt's supreme council of antiquities, arce works to preserve the country's antiquities through documentation, conservation, training, and publication. The scope of our work has included more than 50 major conservation projects throughout egypt that span the entire range of the country's rich cultural history, from prehistory to the late ottoman period, including masterpieces of pharaonic, graeco-roman, coptic, jewish, and islamic art and architecture.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Investment-supported. 68% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 72% for direct work, and 28% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 72
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.7%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 64.1%; rating input score 64
- Fundraising efficiency: $2.47 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Limited
- Conducts field audits: Limited
- May suspend future funding: Limited
- Requires financial reports: Limited
- Conducts site visits: Limited
- Requires grant agreements: Limited
- May require repayment: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd 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: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -54.3%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 23.93; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 19.5%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.1% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.7% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 99.7% of revenue deployed · 64.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 20 of 20 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $2.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $179K · 26 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.