National Emergency Number Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 391395449
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2023, Form 990-N 2011
- Location
- Alexandria, VA, USA
- Phone
- 2024664911
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $9,475,990
- Expenses
- $8,669,770
- Assets
- $10,247,684
- Liabilities
- $3,679,675
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Charles Cullen (Past President)
- Melanie Jones (President)
- John Provenzano (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Brian Fontes (Chief Exec Dir): $407,454 total reported compensation
- Brandon Abley (Chief Tech Officer): $210,627 total reported compensation
- Jonathan Gilad (VP Govt Affairs): $194,044 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 the advancement of a national emergency number infrastructure, through research, standards development, training, education, outreach, and advocacy.
What it reported doing in 2024
Memberships and Service: Represent members before communication regulatory agencies, appropriate policy making, and legislative bodies. Help members by collecting and disseminating information related to a universal emergency telephone number. Continue to provide benefits through education courses, conferences, training, publications and webinars, etc.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 94% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.7%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 84.3%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $1.46 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.5%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.18; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.36; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14.7%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.8% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.7% of revenue deployed · 84.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 9 filed program accomplishments · $7.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $407K · 17 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1M reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 4/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Whistleblower policy not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.