Exemplar Global Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
391686335
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Milwaukee, WI, USA
Phone
4142728575
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Boards of Trade

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$4,002,928
Expenses
$3,429,340
Assets
$2,556,879
Liabilities
$467,488

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ANDREW BAINES (CEO & DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • SIDDHARTHA BHATNAGAR (BOARD CHAIR): $578,716 total reported compensation
  • ANDREW GLUBISZ (BOARD TREASURER): $256,379 total reported compensation
  • ANDREW BAINES (CEO & DIRECTOR): $243,339 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To certify compliance professionals and organizations worldwide and encourage ongoing professional development to drive a positive impact on the industries they serve.

What it reported doing in 2025

Personal certification (including inarte): exemplar global, inc. (exemplar) provides an overall service to industry and the community through certification of personnel and training providers. Training provider certification assists with ensuring that individuals are receiving consistent quality training covering relevant material based on industrial and international standards. Personnel certification assists individuals with proving competence to potential employers, and provides employers with peace of mind that the employee will be able to apply the relevant standard in their work. This peace of mind can also extend to the general public, for example in the areas of food safety and aerospace our service assist with business getting and employment opportunity where certification is deemed mandatory by government, regulatory bodies, and peak industry bodies, e.g. USA department of energy. Inarte professional certifications are for qualified engineers and technicians in the fields of telecommunications, electromagnetic compatibility/interference (emc/emi), product safety (ps), electrostatic discharge control (esd), and wireless systems installation. The inarte community provides global proof of skills and demonstrates commitment to career development. Career opportunities with government and civil contractors in electronics, avionics, and other technical fields may depend upon inarte certification.

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: 43
  • Accountability: 23
  • Sustainability: 43
  • Growth: 20

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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
  • Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • 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: 14.3%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.75; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 22.6%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -1.7% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 15th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 0 of 3 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $579K · 6 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $457K reported
  • Consistency: 10 of 10 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes foreign activity and executive pay
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 9 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 37/100.