The Monitoring Association

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
366111423
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Mclean, VA, USA
Phone
7032424670
Rating confidence
Limited

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,683,528
Expenses
$2,883,857
Assets
$4,370,170
Liabilities
$2,937,322

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

27 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • STEVE BUTKOVICH (PRESIDENT)
  • PAMELA J PETROW (EC APPOINTED BY PRESIDENT)
  • MORGAN HERTEL (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)
  • JAY HAUHN (EC APPOINTED BY PRESIDENT)
  • WES USIE (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • DANIEL OPPENHEIM (VICE PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • CELIA TRIGO BESORE (FORMER CEO): $201,528 total reported compensation
  • ILLENY MAZZA (DIRECTOR OF MEMBERSHIP AND): $135,892 total reported compensation
  • JULIE WEBBER (VP OF EDUCATION AND TRAINI): $133,322 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To promote and advance the professional monitoring to consumers and first responders through education, advocacy, and the creation of standards.

What it reported doing in 2024

Five diamond - certification is granted annually to 100+ monitoring centers that satisfy all of the requirements of the five points of excellence; commitment to: random inspections and quality criteria standards by a nationally recognized testing laboratory (nrtl), the highest levels of customer service, ongoing job-related education and testing by having 100% of its cs operators certified using tma's online training, raising the industry standards through tma membership and participation in its activities, and to reducing false dispatches.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 97% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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: 78
  • Accountability: 84
  • Sustainability: 26
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • 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: 86.4%; rating input score 86; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 95.7%; rating input score 96; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • 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: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -7.5%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.52; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.67; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 20.8%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 22 of 23 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 8 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $202K · 27 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $280K reported
  • Consistency: 10 of 11 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 3 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.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.