National Speakers Assoication
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 742422639
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Raleigh, NC, USA
- Phone
- 9197499303
- Rating
- 63
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $80,717
- Expenses
- $77,284
- Assets
- $53,874
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- John Edwards (President Elect)
- Sarah Glova (President)
- Larry Long Jr (Immediate-Past President)
- Chris Vasimi (Co-Vice President of Programs)
- Sharon Delaney McCloud (Vice President of Marketing)
- Ruby Brown-Herring (Co-Vice President of Programs)
People named in this filing
- John Edwards (President Elect)
- Sarah Glova (President)
- Larry Long Jr (Immediate-Past President)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
NSA Carolinas is a chapter of the National Speakers Association that exists to advance the professional speaking industry by providing its members, professional speakers based in North Carolina and South Carolina, with education, professional development programming, networking opportunities, mentorship, and a supportive community to grow their speaking businesses.
What it reported doing in 2025
Program Service 1. Monthly Education and Community Programming.The chapter delivered year-round programming designed to support member growth as professional speakers. This included Second Saturday community gatherings held monthly, except July and August, in 2 to 4 cities across North Carolina and virtually, with combined attendance ranging from 50 to 100 members per month. The chapter also hosted monthly Third Wednesday virtual professional development sessions, except July and August, each featuring a guest speaker on a topic relevant to the business of professional speaking, averaging 30 live attendees with recordings made available to all members for ongoing access. In addition, the chapter delivered a virtual six-week Speaker Academy in fall 2025 for 12 enrolled participants, which included a structured curriculum focused on building a speaking business. There were also mentorship opportunities offered through virtual mastermind groups. Quarterly Maximizing Your Membership orientations served 5 to 15 new members per session, with recordings available, and monthly member communications kept the broader membership informed and engaged throughout the year. Approximate members served through these initiatives include more than 150 unique members across the programming year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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. 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: 56
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 54.6%; rating input score 55
- Program expense ratio: 57%; rating input score 57
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.3%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.7; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 54.6% of revenue deployed · 57% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $44K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 1 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: Mission deployment rate scored 55/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 57/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.