The Ccim Institute

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
363743268
IRS 990 coverage
2012–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Chicago, IL, USA
Phone
3123214460
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$13,224,190
Expenses
$13,816,607
Assets
$22,121,645
Liabilities
$6,746,855

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

Leadership & pay

100 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • STEVEN RICH (PRESIDENT)
  • ADAM PALMER (PRESIDENT-ELECT)
  • ANDIE EDMONDS (FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT)
  • D'ETTA CASTO DELEON (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)
  • PAUL RUMLER (CEO/EVP)
  • GAIL COLLINS (DEPUTY CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • PAUL RUMLER (CEO/EVP): $513,801 total reported compensation
  • MICHAEL OBERHAUS (CFO): $266,860 total reported compensation
  • GAIL COLLINS (DEPUTY CEO): $262,537 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

The mission of the ccim institute is to elevate our members to the highest levels of success in the commercial real estate profession.

What it reported doing in 2025

Designation promotion: in addition to awarding the ccim designation only to qualified professionals, the ccim institute also maintains an extensive program to promote the recognition of the ccim designation as the leading authority in the commercial investment real estate profession.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 95% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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: 54
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 24
  • Growth: 60

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: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Pass
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
  • Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 91.1%; rating input score 91; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • 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: -4.5%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.6; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.3; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 17.8%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 82 of 90 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $514K · 100 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.6M reported
  • Consistency: 12 of 12 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes foreign activity, executive pay, and related organizations
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2012 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 14 filed money-flow records
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 40/100.