Social Accountability Accreditation Services Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 261541492
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2020
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2126841414
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Labor Studies
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $0
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JANE HWANG (PRESIDENT & CEO)
- JOHN BROOKES (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- JANE HWANG (PRESIDENT & CEO): $173,394 total reported compensation
- JOHN BROOKES (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $141,967 total reported compensation
- JOHN GEORGANTAS (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $131,602 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Social accountability accreditation services (saas) is an acrcreditation agency founded to accredit and monitor organizations as certifiers of compliance with social standards, including the social accountability 8000 (sa8000) standard for ethical working conditions. Accreditation is the process by which formal recognition of competence is given to qualified organizations, known as certification bodies (cb's), who are then granted the ability to perform certifications. Certification of compliance to sa8000 and other verification codes within the saas scope of accreditation is available only through qualified cb's granted accreditation by saas. The organization dissolved during the year/
What it reported doing in 2020
The organization dissolved during 2020.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
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: 55
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: NotEnoughData
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 22nd 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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 25th 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: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: -18.7% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -7.5% per year; rating input score 0; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 7 of 8 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $173K · 14 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 10 of 11 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2010 to 2020
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: 2 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Series filing activity did not reconcile in the filed values.