English Language Institute in China
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 953551085
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Fort Collins, CO, USA
- Phone
- 9705303800
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- International Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $17,072,035
- Expenses
- $20,647,138
- Assets
- $7,402,538
- Liabilities
- $462,301
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TIMOTHY DAVIS (CEO/PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- TIMOTHY DAVIS (CEO/PRESIDENT): $264,908 total reported compensation
- COLLIN QUIGLEY SR DIRECTOR (OPS & MOBILIZATION (PART YEAR)): $166,145 total reported compensation
- CAMERON BUTLER SR DIRECTOR (GLOBAL SUPPORT SERVICES (PART YEAR)): $159,641 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Elic places passionate people in contact with students across asia through the medium of teaching english. Elic recruits, trains, and sends men and women from the u.s. And canada to meet the ever-growing demand for quality english education in asia.
What it reported doing in 2024
Elic has been sending teachers to teach english in china, southeast asia, central asia, & the middle east/north africa since 1982. We are considered the premier english teaching organization. Elic receives funding for carrying out programs in three ways: 1) teachers raise support to cover programmatic costs directly related to their services overseas; 2) elic affiliates pay elic a fee for carrying out administrative and support services for programs; and 3) elic is paid by overseas universities for the placement of teachers and carrying out specific summer programs. In 2024, elic placed 485 teachers overseas. 257 were annual assignments while 228 were summer assignments.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 85% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 72% for direct work, and 28% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 21
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 88.9%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $16.94 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Pass
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -20.9%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.36; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.3%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.5% per year; rating input score 100; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.5% per year; rating input score 100; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 88.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 13 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $18.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $265K · 17 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 39 of 39 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 6 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 6 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 57/100.