Certified Licensing Professionals
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 261640316
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2017, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Charlotte, NC, USA
- Phone
- 8883917719
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $115,987
- Expenses
- $99,858
- Assets
- $463,172
- Liabilities
- $277,270
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
People named in this filing
- JULIE WATSON (Chairman)
- FIONA NICOLSON (Treasurer)
- KIRSTEN LEUTE (CHAIR ELECT)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To recognize professionals who have demonstrated their expertise and proficiency in the licensing and commercialization of intellectual property.
What it reported doing in 2025
Clp, inc. Administers the certified licensing professionals (clp) exam and certification program. The clp certification program is a professional designation intended to distinguish those who have demonstrated experience, proficiency, knowledge and exposure to licensing and commercialization of intellectual property through involvement in patenting, marketing, valuation, ip law, negotiation, and intellectual asset management.
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
- 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: 82
- Sustainability: 65
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13.9%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.64; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.6; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -5% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.1% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.