American Association of Pathologists' Assistants

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
310921680
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Washington, DC, USA
Phone
2025912478
Rating confidence
Limited

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,226,336
Expenses
$986,955
Assets
$1,058,320
Liabilities
$7,360

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MICHELLE SOK (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR THRU SEPTEMBER)
  • CHRISTY LEVINE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR STARTING OCTOBER)

People named in this filing

  • JENNIFER PEREZ (BOARD CHAIR)
  • JESSE MCCOY (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER)
  • HEATHER GABURO (TRUSTEE)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The association of pathologists' assistants (aapa) is dedicated to providing comprehensive professional support for pathologists' assistants.

What it reported doing in 2024

Aapa provides comprehensive professional support for pathologists' assistants through educational opportunities including our quarterly peer-reviewed journal, the cutting edge, distributed to all members in print or electronic form, and regular e-blasts where our members have the opportunity to earn continuing education credits for their certification maintenance.aapa offers three annual meetings to earn additional continuing education, including a fall conference (approx. 200 in-person attendees, 60 virtual attendees), spring meeting (approx. 110 attendees) and our summer meeting (approx. 75 attendees). We also offer recordings of the conference lectures and have published beyond the bench, a series of ce articles, for our members to accrue credits.the aapa is an approved provider of continuing education programs in the clinical laboratory sciences through the ascls pace program (approx. 18,000 ce credits issued annually).beyond ce, the aapa provides professional support by tracking our members' ce units, administering surveys, monitoring legislation, offering a certification exam study course, offering an inspection readiness kit, and facilitating networking of our members.we work to educate the public and medical community concerning the role and responsibilities of the pathologists' assistant through our traveling exhibit booth (5 times annually) and annual pa day (april 14), as well as maintenance of our website and promotion of our job hotline.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 87% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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: 90
  • Accountability: 76
  • Sustainability: 67
  • 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 19.5%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.07; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $213K reported
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.