The National Center for Construction Edu and Research Ltd

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
541779583
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Alachua, FL, USA
Phone
3523340911
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Job Training

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$31,586,196
Expenses
$26,704,141
Assets
$45,692,425
Liabilities
$7,387,541

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

Leadership & pay

35 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • BOYD WORSHAM (PRESIDENT & CEO)
  • JENNIFER WILKERSON (VICE PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • BOYD WORSHAM (PRESIDENT & CEO): $590,463 total reported compensation
  • LISA STRITE (CLO): $367,902 total reported compensation
  • JENNIFER WILKERSON (VICE PRESIDENT): $365,473 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Nccer's mission is to provide rigorous and relevant workforce development solutions that create opportunities for individual career advancement and support industry growth. The organization develops and maintains standardized construction training programs and certification assessments for over 40 crafts, provides field leadership training and certification programs for superintendents and foremen, and provides operator qualification (oq) training and testing for the pipeline industry. All trainees who complete training and/or assessment(s) at organizations accredited by nccer receive nccer's industry-recognized credentials, which may include a digital badge, a digital transcript, a digital or physical wallet card and/or a printed certificate. Organizations that use nccer's products and services include secondary and post-secondary schools, contractors, industry associations, state and federal government agencies, pipeline operators, and owners.

What it reported doing in 2025

Workforce development and program support nccer facilitates the implementation of accredited training and assessment programs in a variety of educational environments, including schools, corporate facilities and prisons. Nccer also provides accreditation services and support to organizations seeking to implement nccer programs. Nccer provides education and training courses for program administrators online through live training and through nccer's lms. Nccer develops and provides additional instructional resources for instructors who deliver nccer training, which include lesson plans, powerpoint slide decks and equipment and materials lists. Once programs achieve accreditation, nccer audits the testing and training activities of its providers on a regular basis, in accordance with its published accreditation standards. Lastly, nccer provides customer service directly to all trainees, craft professionals and program administrators who contact us for support with nccer products or services.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 82
  • Transparency & Controls: 67
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 56
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 76.5%; rating input score 77
  • Fundraising efficiency: $2.65 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 15.5%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.71; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.16; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 9.2%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 11.1% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 76.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 27 of 27 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $20.4M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $590K · 35 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.7M reported
  • Consistency: 35 of 36 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
  • 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.
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 6/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 29/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 57/100.