National Association for Business Economics
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 136133105
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2024636223
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,321,130
- Expenses
- $2,212,931
- Assets
- $3,089,846
- Liabilities
- $591,522
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- THOMAS BEERS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- JULIA CORONADO (PAST PRESIDENT 2022-2023)
- Ellen Zentner (Past President 2023-2024)
- Emily Kolinski Morris (President 2024-2025)
- Gregory Daco (Vice President 2024-2025)
Highest reported compensation
- THOMAS BEERS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $317,335 total reported compensation
- TARA MUNROE (DIR., EDUC. & PROF.. DEV'T.): $148,936 total reported compensation
- COLETTE BRISSETT (DIRECTOR, ADMINISTRATION): $120,954 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Nabe's mission is to advance the practice of economics and the application of economic principles for the greater good.
What it reported doing in 2024
Meetings: hosted annual meeting, policy conference, tech economics conference, international economic symposium, and transfer pricing symposium.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 97% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 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: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Missing
- Other executive compensation review process: Limited
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.7%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.4; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.19; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 26.5%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 16 of 16 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 10 filed program accomplishments · $2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $317K · 19 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 13 of 13 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 50/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.