International Council of Academies Engineers Techincal Science Caets

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
522251297
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2016–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Gordonville, TX, USA
Phone
5712167773
Rating
38
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Engineering and Technology

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$109,459
Expenses
$102,358
Assets
$431,392
Liabilities
$40,443

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

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Katherine Woodthorpe (President)
  • Mika Hannula (Past-President)
  • Frank Behrendt (President-Elect)

People named in this filing

  • Ding Ning (Director)
  • Rahman Bello (Director)
  • Milos Nedeljkovic (Director)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Communications and collaboration among international member academies regarding advances in engineering and technological sciences for the benefit of society. Sponsor annual meeting and technical symposium hosted by different member academy each year. Maintain website with public information access as well as member only information access. Support one standing committee on Communications as well as five working groups on various topics of priority to member academies.

What it reported doing in 2025

The Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering hosted CAETS annual meetings in Brisbane, Australia in combination with a full-day public symposium themed "Generations: An international symposium shaping a sustainable future in 50 years. More than 270 attendees from 28 countries participated in the events.

Operating model

Revenue model
Membership-supported. 91% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 53
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 6.5%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.21; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 48.8%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -24.4% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2016 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 48/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.