Cleveland Engineering Society

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
340150150
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2009–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Cleveland, OH, USA
Phone
4404629382
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Public, Societal Benefit

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$169,161
Expenses
$156,751
Assets
$190,032
Liabilities
$42,911

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

16 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DAVID K OSHINS (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • DAVID K OSHINS (PRESIDENT)
  • JOHN M ALEXANDER (VICE PRESIDE)
  • DANIEL MACDONALD (TREASURER)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The cleveland engineering society is a non-profit prfoessional development organization. We serve the needs of enginneering and technical professionals and their employers by providing valued and topical speaker series and conferences, professional testing review courses and networking and leadership opportunities. Ces serves the community with educational outreach prgorams to encourage high school and middle school students to study engineering at the many fine northeast Ohio colleges or universities and to pursue engineering careers in northeast Ohio.

What it reported doing in 2024

Education courses related to the field of engineering. Membership programs, publications, conferences and leader of industry topical discussions of public interest and technical problems.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 84% 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 76
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Sustainability: 47
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 74.3%; rating input score 74
  • Program expense ratio: 80%; rating input score 80

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 7.3%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.21; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.23; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 39.1%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -3.4% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -6% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 0.6% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 74.3% of revenue deployed · 80% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $125K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 16 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.