Issue Management Council
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 541493356
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Minneapolis, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6512907466
- Rating
- 51
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $114,536
- Expenses
- $99,836
- Assets
- $157,700
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LEE ANDERSON (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- ERIN RATH (Chair)
- LEE ANDERSON (Vice President)
- LISA CARR (Treasurer)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide instruction & training to business executives, association directors, activists & members of the media & serve as a national & international association to encourage the development & exchange of state-of-the-art theory & practice in issue management.
What it reported doing in 2024
IMC host an annual Forum those in issue & reputation management, crisis communication, & public affairs, with approximately 50 attendees. It is networking & learning experience about the challenges & triumphs of fellow industry professionals through carefully selected speakers who will share deep insights & candid commentary about their work.IMC also hosts monthly Member Chats. These monthly, members-only conversations are uniquely valuable for identifying emerging issues & providing a forum for confidential benchmarking & discussion. Customary with IMCs practice, Member Chats steer away from direct advocacy, & instead focus on ways to navigate the analysis, appropriate action, communication & governance of coalition decisions. The sessions are open to IMC Members only, conducted under Chatham House Rules & are not recorded. These chats benefit the organizations 90+ individual members & normally are attending by 25-35 people.IMC provides quarterly webinars free to members & open to paying non-members. IMC enlists members to lead these or industry leaders who are not members. These webinars focus on key current events & draw an attendance of 25-40 people.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending 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: 23
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 21.8%; rating input score 22
- Program expense ratio: 25%; rating input score 25
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 12.8%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.58; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 23.4% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4.1% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 21.8% of revenue deployed · 25% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $25K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 22/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 25/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.