National Association of Colleges and Employers
Legal name: Nace Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 236446205
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2016
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2016
- Location
- Bethlehem, PA, USA
- Phone
- 6108681421
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,589
- Expenses
- $33,837
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2016. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
People named in this filing
- KATHLEEN POWELL (TRUSTEE)
- NORMA GUERRA GAIER (TRUSTEE)
- GLEN FOWLER (TRUSTEE)
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 2016. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
NACE fosters the critical connections needed to prepare students for success while helping employers build the workforce of tomorrow.
What it reported doing in 2016
Grants to individuals to further the education of best practices and knowledge of the profession.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 66% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 7
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 73.5%; rating input score 74
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2,029.5%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 48% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -38.6% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -44.6% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 73.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $25K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2013 to 2016
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.