Asqexcellence Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
843729689
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Milwaukee, WI, USA
Phone
4142728575
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$12,801,759
Expenses
$13,177,850
Assets
$3,775,403
Liabilities
$6,625,973

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

15 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JAMES R TEMPLIN (CEO)
  • MICHAEL BYRNES (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CERT OPERATIONS)
  • BRIAN SCARPACE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, GLOBAL SUCCESS)
  • BEVERLY SCHEELS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, R&D)

Highest reported compensation

  • JAMES R TEMPLIN (CEO): $568,159 total reported compensation
  • MICHAEL BYRNES (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CERT OPERATIONS): $286,294 total reported compensation
  • BRIAN SCARPACE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, GLOBAL SUCCESS): $229,979 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Asqe's mission is to set the standard for quality driven offerings and insights worldwide, inspiring the organizations it serves to achieve excellence. Asqe provides expertise, insights, thought leadership, networks and resources to a global membership of organizations and their affiliated individuals representing a wide range of industries and cultures.

What it reported doing in 2024

Asqe is a not-for-profit organization comprised of approximately 175 organizational members. Asqe offers professional certifications that are recognized as a mark of quality excellence in many industries. Asqe offers certifications for: quality engineers, software quality engineers, reliability engineers, quality auditors, mechanical inspectors, quality technicians, quality practitioners, six sigma black belts, quality improvement associates, and quality managers. In addition, asqe distributes books and other technical literature and provides year-round training offerings, both self directed and web-based learning programs, related to preparation for certification examinations.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 96% 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: 66
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 13
  • Growth: 40

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: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • 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; 66th 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: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -2.9%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.29; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.76; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 14%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -20.4% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $568K · 15 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.6M reported
  • Consistency: 11 of 11 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes executive pay
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
  • 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.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.