Ethics & Compliance Officer Association Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 203936637
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2018
- Forms available
- Form 990 2016, Form 990-EZ 2018
- Location
- Vienna, VA, USA
- Phone
- 7036472185
- Rating
- 56
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Humanities Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $63,418
- Expenses
- $181,804
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PATRICIA HARNED (CEO)
People named in this filing
- PATRICIA HARNED (CEO)
- MOIRA MCGINTY KLOS (COO)
- DAVID CHILDERS (SVP)
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 2018. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The ethics & compliance officer association foundation (ecoaf) is an educational public charity that develops and delivers valuable information with a special emphasis on new research that contributes to the advancement of ethical practices in organizations.
What it reported doing in 2018
Production and publication of "the ethics & compliance handbook, a practical guide from leading organizations documenting best practices in the ethics and compliance field". Certification that set high standards for ethics and compliance professionals to advance ethical culture in organizations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 46
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 4
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 61%; rating input score 61
- Program expense ratio: 21.3%; rating input score 21
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -186.7%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.5%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -49.2% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -42.1% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -26.3% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 61% of revenue deployed · 21.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $39K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2015 to 2018
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 21/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.