Save International

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
526055721
IRS 990 coverage
2015–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Mount Royal, NJ, USA
Phone
8564233215
Rating confidence
Limited

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$467,960
Expenses
$444,249
Assets
$1,035,520
Liabilities
$59,648

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • HUSSIEN AL-BATTAINEH (PRESIDENT)
  • AL ADELGREN (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • ROB STEWART (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)
  • MELISSA BALDWIN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (TMG))

Highest reported compensation

  • LAURIE DENNIS (DIRECTOR): $9,000 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Save is the global voice of value and the recognized authority on value methodology - a systematic and structured approach for improving projects, products and processes through achieving an optimum balance between function, performance, quality, safety and cost.

What it reported doing in 2025

Certification - enhance ideas and careers of valuation engineers through certified value specialist (cvs) and value methodology associate (vma) certification programs. Cvs certification is the highest level certification, recognizing individuals who have met all certification requirements, both technically and experientially, and whose principal careers are value engineering. Vma certification recognizes those individuals who have decided to become professional value engineeers but have not yet acquired all the experience of technical skills expected of a cvs.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 92% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 76
  • Sustainability: 48
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 5.1%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.33; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $9K · 11 people listed
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $195K reported
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2015 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 33/100.