Georgia Association for Career & Technical Education Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 580966973
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Johns Creek, GA, USA
- Phone
- 7703676055
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $892,962
- Expenses
- $771,881
- Assets
- $928,776
- Liabilities
- $123,294
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
25 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CASSANDRA MILLER-WASHINGTON (PAST PRESIDENT)
- SUSAN HALL (PRESIDENT)
- STEPHEN BERGET (PRESIDENT-ELECT)
- JODY REEVES (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- JODY REEVES (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $111,021 total reported compensation
- JUSTIN ARTHUR (EVENTS DIRECTOR): $51,993 total reported compensation
- KIM ORRICK (MEMBERSHIP COORDINATOR): $17,185 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 mission of gacte is to equip our members with leadership opportunities to advance the following pillars: 1. Program excellence and professional learning, 2. Policy activism, 3. Public relations, 4. Purposeful unification
What it reported doing in 2024
Annual conference to promote career and technical education in the state of Georgia
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 94% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.1%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 93%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- 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: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13.6%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.2; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 23.3%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -11% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.7% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.4% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85.1% of revenue deployed · 93% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 19 of 19 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $718K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $111K · 25 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 19 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 38/100.