Emerge Alliance
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 262336130
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Millersville, MD, USA
- Phone
- 7174335443
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Improvement, Capacity Building N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $55,710
- Expenses
- $69,880
- Assets
- $37,402
- Liabilities
- $18,225
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Tim Martinson (President Emeritus)
- Dusan Brhlik (President)
People named in this filing
- David Geary (Board Member)
- Paul Savage (Chairman Emeritus)
- Kevin Meagher (Board Member)
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
The organization's purpose is to create and promote the adoption of standards for the direct-current (DC) and hybrid AC/DC power infrastucture in commercial facilities and residential buildings and related communities.
What it reported doing in 2025
Activities include the writing and promulgation of technical standards, education and marketing communications in support of the direct current (DC) and hybrid power industries.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 66% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 21
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 84.5%; rating input score 84
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -25.4%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.54; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.49; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 16%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -20.9% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -20% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 84.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $59K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.