Global Technology Industry Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 061058206
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Oakbrook Terrace, IL, USA
- Phone
- 3129128869
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $216,871,482
- Expenses
- $210,142,662
- Assets
- $161,130,290
- Liabilities
- $152,446,410
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TODD THIBODEAUX (PRESIDENT/CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- TODD THIBODEAUX (PRESIDENT/CEO): $4,444,426 total reported compensation
- BRIAN LAFFEY (TREASURER/CFO): $1,165,700 total reported compensation
- THOMAS REILLY (CHIEF PRODUCT OFFICER): $1,008,969 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 organization is dedicated to advancing information technology industry growth through its educational programs, market research, networking events, professional certifications, and public policy advocacy.
What it reported doing in 2024
Membership - gtia is a thriving community of organizations throughout the it channel, including vendors, resellers, distributors, and educators. Our mission is to advance the interests of our valued members and the global it industry as a whole. Gtia provides its members with global certifications and business accreditations, in-depth industry research, targeted networking opportunities, impactful leadership and advocacy, and valuable business tools such as management education, legal templates, roi calculators, and best business practices.
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
- 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: 77
- Accountability: 71
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 6 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 82.2%; rating input score 82; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 50%; rating input score 50; 13th 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: 3.1%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.77; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.95; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.9%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 11% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 6 of 12 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $4.4M · 19 people listed · 6 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $18.5M reported
- Consistency: 14 of 15 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 27 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 18 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.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 50/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 7 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 48/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.