Connecticut Academy of Science & Engineering Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 060945458
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- East Hartford, CT, USA
- Phone
- 8602824229
- Rating
- 58
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- General Science
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $377,317
- Expenses
- $381,178
- Assets
- $902,764
- Liabilities
- $370,710
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- AMY HOWELL (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- THERESA G CLARK (EXECUTIVE DI): $140,020 total reported compensation
- JEFFREY ORSZAK (EXECUTIVE DI): $10,417 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 purposes of the academy is to foster science and engineering, to promote the application of science and engineering to human health and welfare, and to study and report upon any subject within its competence when appropriate.
What it reported doing in 2024
Awards - encourage quality science and engineering education by participating and providing awards at student scientific conferences such as the Connecticut intel science talent search, Connecticut science fair, Connecticut junior science and humanities symposium, and Connecticut invention convention.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 35
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 35.8%; rating input score 36
- Program expense ratio: 36.9%; rating input score 37
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.46 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.37; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.41; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 39.5%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -12.7% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.6% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 35.8% of revenue deployed · 36.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $141K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $140K · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 26 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 37/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 28/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.