Air-conditioning Heating and Refrigeration Institute
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 261558777
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Arlington, VA, USA
- Phone
- 7035248800
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $48,012,249
- Expenses
- $46,727,576
- Assets
- $59,395,622
- Liabilities
- $22,537,580
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
24 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- STEPHEN YUREK (AHRI PRESIDENT & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
- WILLIAM FONG (VICE PRESIDENT, IT & BUSINESS SOLUTIONS)
- VASSILIS TRITSIS (VICE PRESIDENT, CERTIFICATION)
- SAMANTHA SLATER (SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS)
- HENRY HWONG (SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, GLOBAL OPERATIONS)
Highest reported compensation
- STEPHEN YUREK (AHRI PRESIDENT & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $907,277 total reported compensation
- JOHN LANIER (SECRETARY & CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $514,444 total reported compensation
- WILLIAM FONG (VICE PRESIDENT, IT & BUSINESS SOLUTIONS): $386,720 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The air-conditioning, heating, and refrigeration institute (ahri) serves the public and the industry by promoting recognition of the vital role of air conditioning, heating, water heating, and commercial refrigeration equipment on the health, safety, comfort, and productivity of americans and people around the world. The association's world class performance standards and guidelines underpin ahri's globally recognized, industry respected equipment certification program, both of which help to promote consumer confidence that products and equipment will perform as advertised by the manufacturer.ahri's 325 member manufacturers represent more than 90 percent of all hvacr and water heating equipment built and sold in north america and more than 70 percent of all such equipment built and sold to consumers across the globe. The association's headquarters office in northern Virginia and its five other offices around the world promote the industry's vital role in innovation, energy ef
What it reported doing in 2025
Policy and government affairs - these departments advocate for the industry on a variety of domestic, trade and international issues. Hvacr and water heating products are under ever-increasing scrutiny worldwide for the energy and refrigerants they use. These ahri departments work with decision makers around the world to develop policies that recognize the vital role of air conditioning, heating, and refrigeration products in the overall safety, health, comfort, and productivity of citizens around the world.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 96% 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
- 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: 57
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 60
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: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.7%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.27; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.38; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.9%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 16 of 16 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $907K · 24 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $15.2M reported
- Consistency: 11 of 11 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes foreign activity and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 43/100.