SAE Government Technologies
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 813279830
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Troy, MI, USA
- Phone
- 2482734029
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,844,758
- Expenses
- $2,491,675
- Assets
- $4,356,520
- Liabilities
- $2,743,122
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRANDON CARD (PRESIDENT AND CHAIR (THRU 11/2024))
- MICHAEL MCNAIR (PRESIDENT AND CHAIR (AS OF 12/2024))
Highest reported compensation
- DAVID L SCHUTT PHD (COO & DIRECTOR (THRU 05/2024)): $968,728 total reported compensation
- RICHARD E WILKIE (CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER): $650,336 total reported compensation
- GREGORY L BRADLEY ESQ (INTERIM CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER (AS OF 12/2024)): $601,799 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide secure, scalable, and interoperable identity and credential management solutions for government agencies and their partners.
What it reported doing in 2024
Coordination of activities related to the development of prototype projects to enhance the mission effectiveness of military personnel and supporting platforms and systems in identified technology areas, including automotive cyber security, vehicle safety technologies, vehicle light weighting, autonomous vehicles and intelligent systems, connected vehicles, advanced energy storage technologies, propulson technologies, and active suspension technologies.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 98% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 69
- Accountability: 47
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94.1%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 69.6%; rating input score 70
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 25%; rating input score 25; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -35.1%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.75; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.63; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 56.4%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 19.2% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 16.3% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.6% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 94.1% of revenue deployed · 69.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 1 of 4 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $969K · 15 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $927K reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 5 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.