International Association for Spelling as Communication
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 821395255
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Herndon, VA, USA
- Phone
- 7034540202
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Disabled Persons' Rights
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,120,546
- Expenses
- $1,081,576
- Assets
- $676,142
- Liabilities
- $261,981
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Keven LeBlanc (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Elizabeth Vosseller (Executive Dir.): $160,407 total reported compensation
- Keven LeBlanc (President): $10,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of I-ASC is to advance communication access for nonspeaking individuals globally through training, education, advocacy, and research. I-ASC's purpose is to provide a voice to nonspeaking, minimally speaking, and unreliably speaking individuals through AAC, specifically through a method called Spelling to Communicate, or S2C.
What it reported doing in 2025
Education - We continued providing free events and resources throughout 2025. Adding some free Lessons, informative articles, and Motor hacks to the website. The popular monthly Neurolyrical Cafe with 900+ attendees over the last 12 months continued in 2025. I-ASC also hosted 12 free webinars and 12 community visits. All in all, around 71 Free Monthly talks, events, and webinars attended by 7400+ people. I-ASC Leadership and Nonspeakers presented in over 8 conferences in 2024. Events culminated in July 2025 with the 9th Annual Motormorphosis Conference with 600+ in-person attendees and 160+ virtual attendees. This conference continued to be the primary event sharing new and vital information for the continued progress of nonspeaking communication access. The Nonspeaking Entrepreneurship Program was added in 2025 with 9 nonspeakers taking part in this pilot program.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 44
- Accountability: 80
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.7%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 83.2%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $9.14 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 90%; rating input score 90; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.5%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.63; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.39; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.8%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.6% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.7% of revenue deployed · 83.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 10 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $900K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $160K · 10 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and executive pay
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 32/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.