The Annapolis Group of Liberal Arts Colleges
Legal name: The Annapolis Group of Liberal Arts Colleges Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 822828643
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Annapolis, MD, USA
- Phone
- 4432211188
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $255,315
- Expenses
- $368,704
- Assets
- $380,568
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ALICE BLAYNE-ALLARD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- JONATHAN GREEN (CHAIR)
- WILLLIAM C DUDLEY (SECRETARY)
- JORGE GONZALEZ (TREASURER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide the best learning environment for students to gain the skills, knowledge, and abilities to succeed in this rapidly evolving world.
What it reported doing in 2024
In 2025, the annapolis group of liberal arts colleges, inc raised public awareness about the educational goals and distinctive strengths of its member institutions and facilitates their participation in national conversations relating to higher education.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 97% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 80
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 88.1%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 5th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -44.4%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.03; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.5% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.1% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 88.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $325K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 17 of 18 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.