National Council of School Safety Directors
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 862422395
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2023
- Location
- Leesburg, VA, USA
- Phone
- 7039732480
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Safety Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $213,189
- Expenses
- $259,811
- Assets
- $14,798
- Liabilities
- $25,709
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ara Bagdasarian (President)
- Bruce Canal (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Ara Bagdasarian (President)
- Bruce Canal (Vice President)
- Jeff McWeeney (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To advocate, champion, and drive toward advancements in school safety technology as well as raising awareness, funding, innovation, and adoption of campus/school safety technologies and programs through the coordinated efforts of our partners and affiliated organizations and individuals.
What it reported doing in 2024
Conferences and round table discussions(IACLEA, Campus Safety) - Engaged members with attendees who learn about latest school safety technology, members speaking during sessions. 800 attendees
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- 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 total spending goes to programs and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 58
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 16
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.1%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 57.5%; rating input score 58
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- 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 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -21.9%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.06; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.74; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 24.1% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -33.1% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 70.1% of revenue deployed · 57.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $149K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 58/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.