Tic Council Americas Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 541974394
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2407628069
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Business and Industry
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $328,604
- Expenses
- $285,413
- Assets
- $57,819
- Liabilities
- $4,130
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RICHARD W O'BRIEN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- RICHARD W O'BRIEN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $150,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Promote common business interests between inspection agencies worldwide in order to maintain and enhance the quality and services provided including inspection certifications.
What it reported doing in 2025
The objectives of tic council americas inc. Include the following:- to oversee deployment of the agreed global strategy with focus on the americas region;- to ensure strategic relationships and alliances are nurtured and maintained with key stakeholders;- to monitor issues likely to impact the tic industry in the americas region and act swiftly on them;- to agree and allocate resources as relevant;- to agree and prioritize issues and topics to be addressed as they ariseprogram service accomplishments: during 2025, tic council americas, inc. (ticca) submitted comments to the California air resources board (carb) regarding the implementation of the California climate legislation package (sb 253, 261, as amended by sb 219). Ticca submitted reply comments to the federal communications commission (fcc) regarding docket number 25-133, the so-called delete, delete, delete" deregulation exercise and the equipment authorization program. Ticca submitted comments to New York state department of environmental conservation on their proposed ghg reporting program. Ticca submitted comments to the fcc regarding the equipment authorization program. Ticca submitted comments to the u.s. Environmental protection agency (epa) regarding proposed charnges to pfas reporting requirements related to the tsca.further, ticca participated in the nist carbon dioxide removal consortium (cdrc), held a meeting with California legislator staff to brief on certification system for sustainability processes (cssp). At a meeting of the international consumer product health and safety organization, ticca staff moderated a conformity assessment session.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% 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: 90
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 40
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: 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 13.1%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.2; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 52.6%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.2% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $150K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 10 of 10 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.