Philadelphia Area Chapter of the Assoc of Certified Fraud Examiners Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 232907420
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Huntingdon Valley, PA, USA
- Phone
- 2159388815
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Adult, Continuing Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $39,266
- Expenses
- $52,082
- Assets
- $49,373
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JENNIFFER FOX (President)
- PRANAV D NAIK (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- ROBERT COHEN CPA CFE (Director)
- JOANNA KISZLO (Secretary)
- JENNIFER M GUARINI (Director)
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
The philadelphia area chapter of the association of certified fraud examiners, inc. Is a professional organization dedicated to the deterrence of fraud in government and the private sector. Certified fraud examiners are responsible for resolving a wide range of allegations regarding fraud and white-collar crime. Certified fraud examiners take statements, assemble evidence, write reports, testify to findings, and assist in the prevention and detection of fraud. The association's mission is to educate qualified individuals in the highly comprehensive techniques of fraud detection, investigation and prevention and to serve the community by the promotion of improved fraud detection and deterrence. This education is accomplished through various seminars, conferences, literature and other resources available to both members and non-members on the local, regional and national levels.
What it reported doing in 2025
Student scholarship program============================the philadelphia area chapter, in support of the association of certified fraud examiners' mission on education, awards a scholarship through the ritchie-jennings memorial scholarship program. The award is based on the student's overall academic achievement, three (3) letters of recommendation (one letter/sponsorship must be from a certified fraud examiner), and an original 250 to 500 words essay on why the scholarship candidate deserves the award and how fraud awareness will affect their professional career development. During the year ended december 31, 2025, the philadelphia area chapter awarded two cfe exam preparation coursed to enable associate members of the acfe earn their certified fraud examiners credential.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 90% 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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 89.8%; rating input score 90
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -32.6%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.95; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.6% per year; rating input score 0; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.4% per year; rating input score 0; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 89.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $47K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.