Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies Talim
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 521071222
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Silver Spring, MD, USA
- Phone
- 7034703166
- Rating
- 56
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- History Museums
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,211,947
- Expenses
- $531,326
- Assets
- $3,068,614
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ms Jennifer Rasamimanana (Executive Director)
- Dr Dale F Eickelman (President)
- Ms Mary Jeffers (Vice President)
- Dr I William Zartman (President Emeritus)
Highest reported compensation
- Ms Jennifer Rasamimanana (Executive Director): $74,244 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies (TALIM) is a bridge of international communication and understanding TALIM operates and maintains the only National Historic Landmark outside the bordars of the U.S. Closely affiliated with the American Institute for Maghrebi Studies (AIMS), TALIM hosts conferences, programs, concerts and lectures on a variety of subjects related to Moroccan and American mutual interests. TALIM hosts a comprehensive research library, museum and cultural center, including youth activites.
What it reported doing in 2024
Operation and maintenance of Legation museum, research library and cultural center. Provision of seminars, lectures, concerts and workshops on timely and cultural issues related to Moroccan and American relations and the larger north Africa. See web site at http://www.legation.org. Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TangierAmericanLegation/.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 74% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 - Most voting board members are independent and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 50
- Transparency & Controls: 44
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 83
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 37.8%; rating input score 38
- Program expense ratio: 86.2%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 56.2%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.78; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 21.5% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 37.8% of revenue deployed · 86.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $458K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $74K · 19 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 30 of 31 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and executive pay
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 38/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.