Anser
Legal name: Analytic Services Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 540695125
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Arlington, VA, US
- Phone
- 7034162000
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Engineering and Technology
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $142,473,079
- Expenses
- $139,886,445
- Assets
- $273,385,689
- Liabilities
- $39,590,423
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
24 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Stephen Hopkins (CEO, Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Stephen Hopkins (CEO, Director): $633,113 total reported compensation
- Gary Struzik (SVP & CFO (Until 12/2024)): $466,838 total reported compensation
- Jessica Albosta (SVP Operations): $459,447 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 provide guidance, operational support, and strategic analysis to defense, intelligence, and homeland security organizations to strengthen national security.
What it reported doing in 2024
See Schedule OAnalytic Services Inc. (ANSER) provides independent studies and analyses to aid key decision-makers in the extended national security and homeland security communities, delivering professional services. ANSER provides technical and programmatic support to clients across the national security community with particular focus on: joint operations: government entities that must work together to address national security challenges through the implementation of common and intersecting functions. Intelligence: the intelligence community. Science & technology: the community that enables our nation to advance its security posture and competitive position through technological achievement. Implementing effective public sector operations: ANSER applies its talents to assist clients who are united by their responsibilities to implement effective public sector operations. Government leadership, at all levels, is tasked with ensuring the best and most efficient operations while achieving mission goals and objectives. ANSER contributes through the following efforts: enterprise systems & planning: helping organizations develop and integrate their business processes and continuously enhance performance. Operations analysis & management: conducting systems analysis, resource planning, and program management to enable clients to improve their core mission operations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 96% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 56
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.5%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 78.9%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 81.8%; rating input score 82; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.8%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.95; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.8%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 81.5% of revenue deployed · 78.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 11 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $110.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $633K · 24 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $12.2M reported
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes foreign activity and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 24 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 28/100.