American Traffic Safety Services Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237305991
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Fredericksburg, VA, USA
- Phone
- 5403681701
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $17,306,533
- Expenses
- $14,457,297
- Assets
- $18,376,880
- Liabilities
- $7,579,869
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
29 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- STACY TETSCHNER (PRESIDENT AND CEO)
- TRACEY CLARK (VICE PRESIDENT OF FINANCE)
- CLARK THOMAS (VICE PRESIDENT TRAINING)
- CAMERON GREENE (VICE PRESIDENT, GOVERNMENT RELATIONS)
- HEATHER FONTENEAU (VICE PRESIDENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES)
- JASON YUSKO (VICE PRESIDENT OF EXPERIENCES)
Highest reported compensation
- STACY TETSCHNER (PRESIDENT AND CEO): $697,627 total reported compensation
- HEATHER FONTENEAU (VICE PRESIDENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES): $270,702 total reported compensation
- JASON YUSKO (VICE PRESIDENT OF EXPERIENCES): $257,413 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
American traffic safety services association (atssa) is an international trade association formed to represent companies and individuals who provide safety devices and services for the nation's roadways.
What it reported doing in 2024
Conferences, conventions and meetings: atssa provides a forum in which they report on prior year activities and discuss current plans and the workzone safety industry for both members and non-members.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 82% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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: 100
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 55
- 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; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 6 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th 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: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 16.5%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.27; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.41; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 21.5%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $698K · 29 people listed · 6 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $363K reported
- Consistency: 13 of 13 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 14 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.