Bsa Business Software Alliance Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 061242574
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2028725500
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $29,166,395
- Expenses
- $30,586,423
- Assets
- $25,575,593
- Liabilities
- $17,084,284
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
52 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- VICTORIA ESPINEL (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- VICTORIA ESPINEL (CEO): $3,305,529 total reported compensation
- AARON COOPER (VP GLOBAL POLICY): $581,200 total reported compensation
- ADAM COATES (GENERAL COUNSEL & VP): $538,319 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Bsa | the software alliance (www.bsa.org) is the leading advocate for the global software industry before governments and in the international marketplace. Its members are among the world's most innovative companies, creating software solutions (see sch o)that spark the economy and improve modern life. With headquarters in Washington, dc, and operations in more than 30 countries, bsa pioneers compliance programs that promote legal software use and advocates for public policies that foster technology innovation and drive growth in the digital economy.
What it reported doing in 2024
Policy: educated policymakers on the need for new or revised laws, regulations, and global agreements in the areas of artificial intelligence, quantum computing, data transfer mechanisms, privacy, cybersecurity, international trade and export controls, law enforcement access to data, workforce development, intellectual property rights and data services. Bsa also advocated against harmful policies, laws or regulations that would stifle innovation and adversely impact the ability of the software industry to compete in the global marketplace.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 94% 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: 67
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 0
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: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.9%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.84; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.67; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 22.6%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -12.6% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -11.7% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 34 of 34 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $3.3M · 52 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $3M reported
- Consistency: 13 of 13 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 12 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 6 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.