International Public Safety Institute
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 872872599
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2022
- Location
- Moultonborough, NH, USA
- Phone
- 6039128911
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Business and Industry
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $293,847
- Expenses
- $277,974
- Assets
- $47,956
- Liabilities
- $137,244
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- HANS KRISTENSEN (PRESIDENT)
- STEPHEN PARDUHN (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JEFFREY G KNIGHT (SECRETARY/TREASURER): $54,000 total reported compensation
- HANS KRISTENSEN (PRESIDENT): $800 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Empowering public safety professionals with the latest technologies and best practices through education and certification.
What it reported doing in 2024
The international public safety institute is an educational institution dedicated to serving the training and certification needs of public safety professionals working in a multitude of technical fields. Certification programs include: traffic signal & inspection, fire alarm, work zone saftey, transportation center, roadway lightning, and signs & pavement markings.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 80% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 53
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 80
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 59.1%; rating input score 59
- Program expense ratio: 62.4%; rating input score 62
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: 5.4%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.17; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 2.86; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 19.7%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.8% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 86.5% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -51.6% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 59.1% of revenue deployed · 62.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 9 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $174K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $54K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 59/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.