Ala Allied Professional Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 320077152
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Private Grantmaking Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $161,941
- Expenses
- $115,719
- Assets
- $416,866
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Sam Helmick (President)
- Maria McCauley PhD (President-elect)
- Cindy Hohl (Past President)
People named in this filing
- Leslie Burger (Interim Exec Director thru July 31 2025)
- Sam Helmick (President)
- Maria McCauley PhD (President-elect)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of the ALA Allied Professional Association certification program is to certify that individuals have reached an advanced level of competency in an area of specialization in the library field. The certification program will be guided by the principles of equitable and nondiscriminatory access certification through competency-based testing use of multiple providers and a rich variety of venues and member-generated needs.
What it reported doing in 2024
Professional development activities - current programs include the production of courses that will support development of the competencies required by the Certified Public Library Administrator program
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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. No material rating questions were generated from the available inputs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 73
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.5%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 28.5%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.6; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.6% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.1% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 71.5% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $116K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.