The Alban Institute Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 520992700
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2012
- Forms available
- Form 990 2012
- Location
- Herndon, VA, USA
- Phone
- 7039642700
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,559,440
- Expenses
- $2,833,524
- Assets
- $3,243,287
- Liabilities
- $491,905
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2012. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2012. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The alban institute's mission is to build up congregations and their leaders to be agents of grace and transformation to shape and heal the world. That mission focuses on developing strong congregational leaders who have the creativity, endurance, and joy to do the work needed to fulfill their congregations' particular callings.
What it reported doing in 2012
Through its dedicated consulting practice the alban institute helps congregations and denominations address a host of challenges such as strategic planning, clergy transitions, ministry revitalization, board development, and conflict transformation. Serving faith communities representing the rich diversity of religious experience in north america, alban consultants are highly regarded for their experience, practical wisdom, and collective accomplishments. Over the decades, they have directly engaged thousands of faith communities. Through writing, speaking, and consulting, the alban consulting team has helped define some of the ideas we have today about how congregations are organized and how they can approach their most pressing challenges and opportunities. Clergy, lay leaders, and denominational executives turn to alban's education offerings to examine the questions, challenges and opportunities they face on an ongoing basis. Alban provides learning opportunities in a variety of ways, from online seminars to in-person events. Led by alban senior consultants and authors, each year alban offers about a dozen in-depth three-day seminars around the country. Alban programming addresses a range of topics from practical knowledge on planning, staffing and ministry, to high level thinking on leadership, mission and societal trends.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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: 89
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: NotEnoughData
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; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 65th 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: -10.7%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.14; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 19.9%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $2.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $268K · 18 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.