International Science Council
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 980041970
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Paris, FR
- Phone
- 0145250329
- Rating
- 57
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,809,069
- Expenses
- $7,200,582
- Assets
- $5,763,379
- Liabilities
- $2,195,909
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Arico SALVATORE (Chief Executive Officer)
Highest reported compensation
- Arico SALVATORE (Chief Executive Officer): $567,361 total reported compensation
- Vanessa GODFREY (Head of Science): $251,098 total reported compensation
- Alison MESTON (Head of Communication): $179,816 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Promoting international, interdisciplinary scientific collaboration, providing independent scientific input to policy making.
What it reported doing in 2024
ISC Co-Sponsored Internatioanl Research & Programmes & Affiliated Bodies
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 41% for direct work, and 59% for grants.
The verdict
MIXED - Most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 59
- Transparency & Controls: 47
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 62.9%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 58.5%; rating input score 58
- Fundraising efficiency: $12.14 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 84.6%; rating input score 85; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- 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: Pass
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 10.7%; rating input score 11; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5.7%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.8; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.38; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 24.1%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.5% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.9% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 62.9% of revenue deployed · 58.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 189 of 189 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $4.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $567K · 8 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 42 of 44 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes foreign activity and executive pay
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 58/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 11/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 6 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 44/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.