Type Directors Club Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
136165624
IRS 990 coverage
2012–2020
Forms available
Form 990 2020
Location
Stamford, CT, USA
Phone
2126338943
Rating
37
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$388,681
Expenses
$449,530
Assets
$138,250
Liabilities
$2,500

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

16 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • PAUL CARLOS (President)
  • ELIZABETH CAREY SMITH (Vice President)

Highest reported compensation

  • CAROL WAHLER (Executive Direc): $69,375 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To promote and raise the standards of typography

What it reported doing in 2020

Annual exhibition of approximatley the best 200 of 5000 examples of typography submitted- these are awarded certificates of excellence

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 95% 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

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 74
  • Accountability: 61
  • Sustainability: 21
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 81.8%; rating input score 82; 1st 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: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -15.7%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.31; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 15.4%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -13.8% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -1.5% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 15 of 16 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $84K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $69K · 16 people listed
  • Consistency: 12 of 14 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2012 to 2020
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

Key Signals

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

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 7 not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grants require schedule f did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 29/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 52/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.