Connectivity Standards Alliance
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 383655436
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Davis, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5307765112
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $13,967,989
- Expenses
- $16,464,950
- Assets
- $5,801,968
- Liabilities
- $6,923,426
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
44 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TOBIN RICHARDSON (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- TOBIN RICHARDSON (PRESIDENT & CEO): $769,563 total reported compensation
- MICHELLE MINDALA-FREEMAN (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $413,376 total reported compensation
- ELIZABETH BUNKER (HEAD OF GOVERNANCE): $299,908 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 connectivity standards alliance ignites creativity and collaboration in the internet of things, by creating, evolving, and promoting universal open standards that enable all objects to securely connect and interact.
What it reported doing in 2024
Thirty-five percent of connectivity standards alliance global member companies, spanning the entire iot value chain, are actively involved in the connectivity standards alliance's certification and testing programs. The certification and testing team is responsible for leading working group test events (tes) for specifications in development, supporting specification validation events (sves), overseeing script validation events (scves), facilitating the certification of members' products and platforms, and the delivery of test tools. In 2024, the certification team performed 2,473 certifications and passed the cumulative 10,400 products certified.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 98% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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: 44
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 6
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -17.9%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.35; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.19; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 19.2%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 21.2% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.1% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 31 of 31 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $770K · 44 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $3.5M reported
- Consistency: 12 of 12 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and executive pay
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 11 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: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.