Automotive Anti-counterfeiting Council Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 814389058
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2022
- Location
- Dearborn, MI, USA
- Phone
- 3132037252
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $227,500
- Expenses
- $188,850
- Assets
- $116,554
- Liabilities
- $36,600
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- WILLIAM FORSYTHE (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ANNALENA BECK (DIRECTOR)
- TEENA BOHI (DIRECTOR)
- DANA CIZMADIA (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To develop ways to identify and help prevent the sale or transfer of counterfeit motor vehicle parts. To educate law enforcement agencies such as u.s. Customs and border protection, homeland security investigations, and various other federal, state and local enforcement agencies on the identification of counterfeit parts, and provide actionable information to support law enforecement efforts. To increase consumer awareness of safety and other concerns involving the use of counterfeit motor vehicle parts. To provide a forum for education and the dissemination of useful information among employees of motor vehicle manufacturers concerning the sale of counterfeit motor vehicle parts.
What it reported doing in 2024
Facilitated and encouraged discussion among all parties interested in preventing the sale or transfer of counterfeit motor vehicle parts. This activity has developed into a regular set of meetings and training events where such discussions involve agents and officers of numerous federal, state and local law enforcement agnecies, reseller websites interested in preventing the sale of counterfeit goods on their sites, and others involved in anti-counterfeiting initiatives. It allows vehicle manufacturers to help educate law enforcers on the identification of counterfeit parts and assist the website operators to develop effective practices to take action the website operators deem appropriate when resellers of counterfeit parts are identified.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% 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 the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.9%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 95.1%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.62; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.31; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.8% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.1% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.8% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.9% of revenue deployed · 95.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $180K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 14 of 14 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2018 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.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.