Rtca Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 530182962
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2028339339
- Rating
- 54
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,427,043
- Expenses
- $4,207,188
- Assets
- $12,633,165
- Liabilities
- $8,351,676
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CAROL HUEGEL (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- CAROL HUEGEL (PRESIDENT & CEO): $559,667 total reported compensation
- REBECCA MORRISON (SR DIR, AVIATION STANDARDS): $225,257 total reported compensation
- ANDREA BERRY (SR DIR, INDUSTRY RELATION): $175,654 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Rtca, inc. Is a not-for-profit corporation that inspires the creation and implementation of integrated performance standards that meet the changing global aviation environment and ensure the safety, security, and overall health of the aviation ecosystem.
What it reported doing in 2025
Special committees - rtca special committees are formed generally in response to a need from a member organization or the aviation industry at large to develop comprehensive, technical performance standards in collaboration with member organizations, and subsequently used as mean of compliance for certification. Participation in special committees is a member benefit and is comprised of volunteers from member organizations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 95% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 31
- Transparency & Controls: 67
- Accountability: 93
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 33.6%; rating input score 34
- Program expense ratio: 36.3%; rating input score 36
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 14th 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: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 5%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.66; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 29.7%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5.7% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 33.6% of revenue deployed · 36.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 8 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $1.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $560K · 12 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $215K reported
- Consistency: 32 of 33 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 34/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 36/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 43/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.