SIP Forum LLC

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Organization Details

Formation Year

2005

Legal Domicile

Phone

9788240111

Tax Period

2024-07-01 to 2025-06-30

SIP Forum LLC, founded in 2005, is a small nonprofit in the Community Improvement sector that reported $593K in total revenue in fiscal year 2024. Revenue surged 22% from the prior year, signaling strong growth momentum. The organization ran a surplus of $118K, a strong 20% operating margin.

Mission

The SIP Forum is organized for the purpose of promoting the spread and adoption of a telecommunications signaling protocol known as Session Initiation Protocol (SIP).

Program Service Accomplishments

Program 1

Expenses: $311,837 Revenue: $433,112

Test Event Working Group (TEWG) - This is chartered to coordinate the holding of large-scale interoperability test events. These events, held multiple times per year at locations around the world...

Test Event Working Group (TEWG) - This is chartered to coordinate the holding of large-scale interoperability test events. These events, held multiple times per year at locations around the world, are open to any company, individual, or institution that wishes to attend and bring a product or service that incorporates SIP signaling to test with other products that incorporate SIP with the goal of increasing Inter-operability among vendors' products or services.

Program 2

Expenses: $32,208

Marketing Working Group - This is chartered to to increase awareness of SIP among selected communities. To do this, the working group performs tasks like creating white papers for distribution from a booth at selected industry conferences, maintaining a freely accessible website listing of SIP-based products and services, and coordinating the speaking opportunities for full member representatives at trade conferences.

Program 3

Technical Working Group - This is chartered to create documents that serve as best practice recomendations about how products use this Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) for application-specific...

Technical Working Group - This is chartered to create documents that serve as best practice recomendations about how products use this Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) for application-specific purposes. These documents, while themselves not the official definition of SIP standard, describe which function is to use within SIP (and other relevant technologies) in order to supply application-specific features.

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Liquidity (40%) • Solvency (30%) • Sustainability (20%) • Efficiency (10%)

Financial Overview (2024)

Revenue Breakdown

Contributions & Grants $159,650

Program Service Revenue $433,112

Investment Income $0

Other Revenue $0

TOTAL REVENUE $592,762

Expense Breakdown

Grants Paid $0

Salaries & Benefits $264,000

Fundraising Expenses $0

Program Expenses $344,045

Other Expenses $211,031

TOTAL EXPENSES $475,031

Year-over-Year Comparison

	2024	2023	Change
Revenue	$592,762	$486,447	+0.2%
Expenses	$475,031	$448,658	+0.1%
Net Income	$117,731	$37,789	+2.1%

Key Indicators

✗ Grants to Organizations ✗ Grants to Individuals ✗ Lobbying ✗ Political Activity ✗ Foreign Activities ✗ Donor Advised Fund ✗ Schedule B Required

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Governance

Voting Members

Independent Members

Employees

N/A

Volunteers

N/A

Governance Policies

✗ Conflict of Interest Policy

✗ Whistleblower Policy

✗ Document Retention Policy

Special Practices & Reported Activities

✗ Operated a School

✗ Operated a Hospital

✗ Provided First Class Travel

✗ Reported Conflict of Interest

✗ Reported Asset Diversion

✗ Excess Benefit Transaction

✗ Made Political Expenditures

✗ Engaged in Lobbying

✗ Operated Donor Advised Fund

✗ Maintained Art Collections

✗ Filed Form 720

Compensation of Officers, Directors & Key Employees

Total Officers

$240,000

Total Directors

$24,000

Key Employees

Highest Compensated

reported

Name	Title	Hours/Week	Role	Reportable Comp	Other Comp	Total
Marc Robins	Mnging Director	40.00	Officer	$240,000	$0	$240,000
Richard Shockey	Chairman	5.00	Director	$24,000	$0	$24,000
Mary BarnesTransUnion	Director	1.00	Director	$0	$0	$0
John Ayers	Director	1.00	Director	$0	$0	$0
George CrayGCH Technologies	Director	1.00	Director	$0	$0	$0
Richard WikoffComcast	Director	1.00	Director	$0	$0	$0
Chris OatwayVerizon	Director	1.00	Director	$0	$0	$0
Greg RogersBandwidth	Director	1.00	Director	$0	$0	$0
Harold SaltersCTIA	Director	1.00	Director	$0	$0	$0
Martin DollyATT	Director	1.00	Director	$0	$0	$0
Steve Tangiconnectiv	Director	1.00	Director	$0	$0	$0
Keith BuellNumeracle	Director	1.00	Director	$0	$0	$0
Steve WendtSomos	Director	1.00	Director	$0	$0	$0
Philip LinseLumen	Director	1.00	Director	$0	$0	$0
Clark WhittenCox	Director	1.00	Director	$0	$0	$0

Note: Compensation data is self-reported by the organization on their Form 990. "Reportable Comp" includes salary, bonuses, and other reportable compensation from the organization and related organizations. "Other Comp" includes benefits, deferred compensation, and non-taxable benefits.

Historical Data

Year	Revenue	Expenses	Assets	Net Income
2025	$592,762	$475,031	$817,987	$117,731
2024	$486,447	$448,658	$770,755	$37,789
2023	$328,876	$298,394	$665,111	$30,482
2022	$445,174	$281,637	$507,016	$163,537
2021	$337,468	$262,033	$467,938	$75,435
2020	$520,735	$391,907	$257,194	$128,828
2019	$369,635	$334,349	$209,545	$35,286