Washington Airports Task Force
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 621135981
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Dulles, VA, USA
- Phone
- 7035728714
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $868,256
- Expenses
- $860,942
- Assets
- $794,707
- Liabilities
- $22,124
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
60 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MAJ GEN KEITH W MEURLIN USAF RET (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- MAJ GEN KEITH W MEURLIN USAF RET (PRESIDENT): $272,697 total reported compensation
- MARK TREADAWAY (TREASURER): $188,003 total reported compensation
- LISA MERHAUT (SECRETARY): $152,395 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 domestic and foreign trade through the increased use and development of the metropolitan Washington airports.
What it reported doing in 2024
The promotion of the Washington metropolitan airports, through mailings, letters, conferences and seminars.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 69% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.8%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 85.1%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $12.21 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- 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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 98.3%; rating input score 98; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.8%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.92; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 71.2%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 84.8% of revenue deployed · 85.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 57 of 58 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $733K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $273K · 60 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 44/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Whistleblower policy not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 59/100.