Arizona Academic Decathlon Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 860508608
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Tempe, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 4808319500
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $166,015
- Expenses
- $175,684
- Assets
- $156,005
- Liabilities
- $37,954
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CASEY THOMAS (President)
- Sisley Tiernan (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- CASEY THOMAS (President)
- SARAH MORRIS (Executive Dir.)
- Bryce Askew (Board Member)
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
To sponsor, promote, and operate high school academic events awarding education scholarships and other awards to event winners.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization sponsors high school academic competition events in which student winners of all academic levels receive education scholarships for post-secondary education and other awards.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 71% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 90% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76.6%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 71.9%; rating input score 72
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5.8%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.89; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.24; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 41.3%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 76.6% of revenue deployed · 71.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $126K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.