Orange County Traffic Engineering Council
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472371896
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Orange, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9492354520
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Employment N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $121,563
- Expenses
- $129,301
- Assets
- $8,120
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TREVOR BRIGGS (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- TREVOR BRIGGS (PRESIDENT)
- MAIDER VANG (SECRETARY)
- LIZ AZIZ-TURNER (TREASURER)
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
A professional organization that facilitates those engaged in the transportation engineering field by providing a forum in which to address the numberous regional transporation issues.
What it reported doing in 2025
The orange county traffic engineering council is a professional organization that facilitates those engaged in the transportaion engineering field by providing a forum in which to address the numberous regional transportation issues. This has been achieved through the following activities: monthly technical luncheons, an annual golf tournament, an annual college student night presentation/job fair, professional trainings and periodic social mixer events. These events promote professional development of its members and interested parties, support and encourage education, and collaborate through partnerships with other similar technical organizations to serve as a conduit for the exchange of professional knowledge and experience.
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 97% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 98
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 94%; rating input score 94
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6.4%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.06; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 50.6% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 54.9% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -64.5% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 94% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $122K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization could not be resolved against the register, so the check is unfinished.