Atlanta International Forwarders and Brokers Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 581466324
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Atlanta, GA, USA
- Phone
- 4046080060
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Boards of Trade
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $50,167
- Expenses
- $53,622
- Assets
- $24,439
- Liabilities
- $231
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRIAN BALDWIN (Vice President)
- TIM VORDERSTRASSE (President)
People named in this filing
- SHANNON WHITT (CHAIR)
- BRIAN BALDWIN (Vice President)
- TIM VORDERSTRASSE (President)
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
The mission of aifba is to promote the common business interests of customs brokers & international freight forwarders; to encourage the professionalism within our industry; to maintain a standard of integrity & efficiency that will protect the trade and the government in the fair, reasonable, and equitable administration of import and export laws & regulations; and, to develop good fellowship among the members.
What it reported doing in 2024
In order to educate their members and further their programming, the organization hosts monthly lunch seminars and attends the government affairs and the national customs brokers forwarders association of america, inc conferences in Washington d.c.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.7%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 87.7%; rating input score 88
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6.9%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.46; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 27.8% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 24% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 93.7% of revenue deployed · 87.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $47K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.