Cambridge Assessment Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 800546414
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2022
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-N 2012
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9175222141
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,475,469
- Expenses
- $10,830,441
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHRISTINE OZDEN (PRESIDENT)
- FRANCESCA WOODWARD (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- PAUL COLBERT (SECRETARY): $419,237 total reported compensation
- CHRISTINE OZDEN (PRESIDENT): $364,349 total reported compensation
- FRANCESCA WOODWARD (VICE PRESIDENT): $352,642 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization's objective is to advance education by helping all learners access the benefits of their education through receiving a fair and accurate assessment of their skills, knowledge and understanding.
What it reported doing in 2022
Examinations and assessments - advance education by helping all learners access the benefits of their education through receiving a fair and accurate assessment of their skills, knowledge and understanding and the doing of all such other things as are incidental or conducive to the attainment of that objective.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 62% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 59
- Accountability: 18
- Sustainability: 8
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 97.3%; rating input score 97
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Claims monitoring procedures: Fail
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -142%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.8%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 21.8% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 16.5% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22.5% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 97.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 5 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $10.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $419K · 5 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $410K reported
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes foreign activity and executive pay
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2014 to 2022
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 2 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 8 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 0/100.