National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education Consortium
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 521646898
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Silver Spring, MD, USA
- Phone
- 3015889630
- Rating
- 63
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,776,673
- Expenses
- $1,331,254
- Assets
- $8,775,414
- Liabilities
- $970,939
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- THALEA LONGHURST (PRESIDENT)
- KATIE GRAHAM (PAST PRESIDENT)
- BRITTNEY WILLIAMS (VICE PRESIDENT)
- KATE BLOSVEREN KREAMER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- EMILY J PASSIAS (DEPUTY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- KATE BLOSVEREN KREAMER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $279,545 total reported compensation
- EMILY J PASSIAS (DEPUTY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $197,388 total reported compensation
- NITHYA GOVINDASAMY (SENIOR DIRECTOR, POLICY): $159,548 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Support state cte leadership to advance high-quality and equitable cte policies, programs and pathways that ensure career and college success for each learner.
What it reported doing in 2024
Advance cte provides members with timely information about the critical issues, events, legislation and news that impact career technical education. Members receive news briefs, blog posts and a variety of publications with the analysis and insights they need to stay on top of trends and support high-quality and equitable cte. Members enjoy access to monthly office hours, webinars, and advocacy tools and updates, among other resources. Advance cte also provides individualized research services for members, conducting surveys and customized research to serve member needs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 90% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 30
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 69
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 28.8%; rating input score 29
- Program expense ratio: 42.4%; rating input score 42
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- 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: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 25.1%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.59; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 77.2%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -6.5% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.3% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 28.8% of revenue deployed · 42.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $564K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $280K · 18 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 29/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 42/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 41/100.