International Test and Evaluation Association

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
521174656
IRS 990 coverage
2019–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2020
Location
Fairfax, VA, USA
Phone
7036316220
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,228,550
Expenses
$1,243,191
Assets
$861,182
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

16 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • Eileen Redd (COO): $197,115 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To advance the field of test and evaluation worldwide in government, industry and academia.

What it reported doing in 2024

LIFT Users Forum: In 2024, the International Test and Evaluation Association (ITEA) entered into a collaborative arrangement with William Thomas Consulting, led by CEO Dr. Scott Foisey, an active ITEA member, to support an educational event for the Test and Evaluation (T&E) community in Virginia Beach. Dr. Foisey hosted the LIFT Users Forum, an event designed to share the current and future state of the Leverage Innovations, Frameworks, and Technologies (LIFT) ecosystem and to gather the ? voice of the customer? from system users. LIFT is a digital ecosystem that supports teams of any size and mission, enabling collaboration and lifecycle management from concept through sustainment. It integrates tools such as JIRA and Confluence to foster agile workflows, streamline project tracking, and enhance communication. LIFT provides an environment where teams can create dynamic pages, design workflows, and generate reports that effectively communicate organizational data to stakeholders. The ITEA Board of Directors approved the LIFT Users Forum as an official ITEA-supported event and incorporated it into the annual budget. ITEA provided logistical and administrative support, including participant registration and event hosting on the ITEA website. To help offset the costs associated with the use of ITEA? s registration database and on-site support, ITEA received $5,000 from William Thomas Consulting. The collaboration successfully advanced professional development and knowledge-sharing within the T&E community while showcasing innovative digital practices that enhance efficiency and team performance across programs and organizations.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 99% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 73
  • Transparency & Controls: 60
  • Accountability: 84
  • Sustainability: 38
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 81.5%; rating input score 82
  • Program expense ratio: 81.1%; rating input score 81
  • Fundraising efficiency: $0.01 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -1.2%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.69; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 15.9%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 13.4% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 17.8% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 24.4% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 81.5% of revenue deployed · 81.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $197K · 16 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $197K reported
  • Consistency: 24 of 25 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes executive pay
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
  • 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 1/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.