EDUCATIONAL CREDENTIAL EVALUATORS INC

Programs

1. FOREIGN CREDENTIAL EVALUATION: ECE provides evaluation of educational credentials for persons who completed part or all of their education outside of the United States. 50,196 requests for reports were received from clients in 2025. ECE prepares evaluation reports that determine the equivalents of foreign academic work. The evaluation reports are used for further education professional licensure employment and in other situations that require an administrative decision based on academic credentials. Our reports ensure that the education of people around the world is understood and put to good use. Reports facilitated the appropriate admission of students into undergraduate graduate and professional degree programs. Our reports helped dentists and pharmacists and other health professionals enter the practice of professions to the benefit of neighbors in their new country. Our evaluations have helped parents obtain jobs so that they can better support their families. Owing to ECE properly assessing the education completed in other countries our world community benefits from the efforts and energy of those whose education would otherwise have been unrecognized and gone to waste.

   $9,386,168 spent$11,539,752 earned by the program
   100% of program spending

2. ECE CONNECTION AND CONNECTION ADVANTAGE PROGRAM: ECE Connection or The Connection provides free information on educational systems around the world for credential evaluators admissions professionals and anyone who evaluates foreign educational documents. The website features news and blog articles training videos original publications and resources links to external resources and ECE Connection Advantage -- a paid subscription service that offers additional tools and resources. In 2025 The Connection saw 113,000 page visits per Google Analytics. 73 new user accounts were created and on average 375 account users logged in monthly. ECE staff responded to approximately 618 requests for information via the message board and published 83 news and blog articles on evaluation-related topics. 94 resources were created and 120 were updated including 3 e-learning video recordings from free webinar sessions conducted throughout the year 3 Chart and Key Publications and 23 Credential Equivalencies. For Advantage subscribers 120 samples were added to the collection of 6000 sample documents. In 2025 ECE held 3 ECE snapshot e-learnings with approximately 276 participants

   $0 spent$56,083 earned by the program
   0% of program spending

3. ECE Aid The ECE Aid initiative focuses on offering fee waivers to vulnerable populations such as refugees for academic credential evaluations from ECE. Credential evaluations are a crucial piece of information for admissions counselors employers and licensing boards in understanding the educational background of international candidates. Fee waivers for ECE services help to open the door to educational and professional opportunities for underserved and vulnerable populations and help provide an educated and experienced workforce in high-demand occupations. ECE Aid places no limitations on eligibility based on race ethnicity home country educational background gender identity etc. and has served over 2,015 individuals from 58 countries across the world.

   $43,030 spent$51 earned by the program
   0% of program spending

4. Our professional evaluation staff presented research and educational sessions at approximately 10 international education conferences presented approximately 25 sessions to colleagues served on 6 professional organizations leadership committees responded to public service inquiries and shared additional research and reports via theconnection.ece.org resource website.

   $1,387 spent$34,307 earned by the program
   0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,430,585.