National Cargo Bureau Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 135615188
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2127858300
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $36,257,021
- Expenses
- $22,369,471
- Assets
- $150,462,872
- Liabilities
- $2,163,850
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
39 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- IAN J LENNARD (PRESIDENT/CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- IAN J LENNARD (PRESIDENT/CEO): $1,189,093 total reported compensation
- KRISTIAN WIEDE (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $661,997 total reported compensation
- SOSIMO J FABIAN GENERAL (COUNSEL/CORPORATION SECRETARY): $415,909 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The safety of life and cargo at sea
What it reported doing in 2024
The bureau provides recommendations for the safe stowage of dangerous goods and other cargoes, and design, strength, safety and suitability of cargo handling gear and cargo containers including the security and integrity of containers. It works at the industry level to achieve uniformity of safety standards and regulations and to remove obstacles that result from lack of uniformity for the stowage of cargo. Ncb offers low cost cargo loading inspection service, whether aboard vessels or in containers, and an inspection service of cargo, containers and cargo handling gear; and generally, to promote the safety of life and cargo.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 87% 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: 75
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 80
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: 98%; rating input score 98; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 90%; rating input score 90; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 38.3%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.73; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 25.5%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 18 of 20 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.2M · 39 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $103K reported
- Consistency: 14 of 15 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 20 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 5 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.