America's Charities
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 541517707
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Chantilly, VA, US
- Phone
- (703) 222-3861 or (800) 458-9505
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $48,818,730
- Expenses
- $43,577,549
- Assets
- $36,218,549
- Liabilities
- $14,460,279
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
22 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JAMES E STARR (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- JAMES E STARR (PRESIDENT & CEO): $363,141 total reported compensation
- DAVID WILLIAM STATHIS (VP, IT): $171,428 total reported compensation
- KIMBERLY H YOUNG (VP, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT): $158,758 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To help companies and their employees mobilize the power of workplace giving to support the causes they care about.
What it reported doing in 2025
Member campaign services - activities related to the management of our members' participation in the federal government's annual campaign in which federal employees can give to support charity.in 2025, ac worked to generate unrestricted, sustainable financial support for its members through public sector workplace giving programs. Ac applied on behalf of its members and secured their participation in the nationwide cfc and over 60 state and local campaigns. Further, ac supported member charity participation in approximately 116 campaign related-events to support public sector employee giving.ac helps charities generate critically needed unrestricted funds enabling those charities to deliver programs and services for families, children, individuals and communities nationwide.ac also provides symposia, webinars, events, and training for charities and employers focused on topics and issues such as employee charitable engagement, volunteer leadership development, donor relationship management and expectations, and leveraging social media.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 87% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 91% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 95%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: $57.59 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 23rd 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: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Pass
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Pass
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 74%; rating input score 74; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
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: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.7%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.83; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.4; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.5%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 8 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 85% of revenue deployed · 95% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $41.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $363K · 22 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $296K reported
- Consistency: 38 of 39 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 814 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 807 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 5 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.