American Academy of Neurology Institute
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 410726167
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025
- Location
- Minneapolis, MN, USA
- Phone
- 8008791960
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $46,947,665
- Expenses
- $45,459,597
- Assets
- $154,450,137
- Liabilities
- $32,059,215
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
24 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Mary E Post (Chief Executive Officer)
Highest reported compensation
- Mary E Post (Chief Executive Officer): $778,817 total reported compensation
- Jason Kopinski (Chief Strategy and Programs Officer): $494,785 total reported compensation
- John Hutchins (General Counsel / Chief Legal Officer): $421,396 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 American Academy of Neurology Institute (AANI) provides top-tier education and scientific programming to neurologists and the broader medical community.
What it reported doing in 2025
Annual Meeting and Conferences: The 2025 AAN Annual Meeting, which took place over five days in San Diego and online to accommodate member needs, drew more than 14,800 attendees. This globally important meeting was rated good or excellent by 95% of attendees. On-demand content remained available for all conferences, allowing the AANI to reach learners on a global level as well as providing continued access to meeting content throughout the year. The value of these on-demand offerings has been appreciated by members and supports the mission of the Academy. The AANI's Fall Conference, held in Las Vegas and online, drew more than 1,000 attendees and included a pre-conference for advanced practice providers. An impressive 98% of attendees rated the conference as good or excellent.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 70% for direct work, and 30% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 63
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.9%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 94.1%; rating input score 94
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Limited
- Conducts field audits: Limited
- May suspend future funding: Limited
- Requires financial reports: Limited
- Conducts site visits: Limited
- Requires grant agreements: Limited
- May require repayment: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 99.1%; rating input score 99; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: 3.2%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.4; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.5%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 92.9% of revenue deployed · 94.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 16 of 20 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $42.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $779K · 24 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $11.8M reported
- Consistency: 37 of 38 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 36 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 30 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 51/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.