Rhode Island Society of Professional Land Surveyors Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 510183479
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2017
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2017
- Location
- Coventry, RI, USA
- Phone
- 4012941262
- Rating
- 58
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $50,689
- Expenses
- $50,542
- Assets
- $58,374
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- EDWARD O'BRIEN (PRESIDENT)
- DAVID HILBERN (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- EDWARD O'BRIEN (PRESIDENT)
- DAVID HILBERN (VICE PRESIDENT)
- DAVID BRAY (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To promote the profession of land surveying, mapping, land information systems, & the related standards; provide continuing professional education seminars/ forums to advance practitioner knowledge & skills, and to provide scholarship opportunities for persons desiring to enter the profession of land surveying.
What it reported doing in 2017
Provide scholarships to students enrolled in a course of study leading to a certificate or degree program in land surveying offered by a qualified institution of higher learning.
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 95% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. 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: 41
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 39.6%; rating input score 40
- Program expense ratio: 42.2%; rating input score 42
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.3%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.15; rating input score 52; 52nd 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: -17% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 39.6% of revenue deployed · 42.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $21K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2010 to 2017
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 40/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 42/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.