Center for Transnational Environmental Accountability Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 852570055
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Rockville, MD, USA
- Phone
- 2406723534
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Research Institutes and Public Policy Analysis
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $842,003
- Expenses
- $693,058
- Assets
- $1,193,911
- Liabilities
- $33,135
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jingjing Zhang (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Jingjing Zhang (President): $144,307 total reported compensation
- Marie Soveroski (Secretary and Treasurer): $79,697 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The purpose of the Organization is to work, and promote efforts, to ensure multinational corporations and other actors are held accountable for environmental harm and human rights violations arising from their international investments.
What it reported doing in 2024
Education & Capacity Building CTEA and its Global South partners have conducted workshops and other training activities, to inform local communities about their rights related to environmental protection and access to information, and to support local civil society organizations in their efforts to protect these rights. In addition, CTEA has conducted training activities to increase the legal and advocacy capacity of its partners and the communities they support.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 79% for direct work, and 21% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 54
- Accountability: 77
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.3%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 80.6%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 84.6%; rating input score 85; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- 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: 50.6%; rating input score 51; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17.7%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.72; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 32.3%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 22.1% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 35.1% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 67.3% of revenue deployed · 80.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $559K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $144K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 26 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes foreign activity and grants
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- 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: 8 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 9 not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 51/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 59/100.