American Association of Physicists in Medicine

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
237057224
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
Location
Alexandria, VA, USA
Phone
5712981300
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Professional Societies, Associations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$12,033,446
Expenses
$13,027,234
Assets
$30,279,659
Liabilities
$7,211,192

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

Leadership & pay

46 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • TODD PAWLICKI (PRESIDENT)
  • C DAVID GAMMEL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • ROBERT MCKOY (ASSOCIATE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR,FINANCE)
  • MICHAEL WOODWARD (DEPUTY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • C DAVID GAMMEL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $448,132 total reported compensation
  • MICHAEL WOODWARD (DEPUTY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $359,042 total reported compensation
  • ROBERT MCKOY (ASSOCIATE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR,FINANCE): $270,399 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Advancing medicine through excellence in the science, education and professional practice of medical physics. The mission is carried out through driving scientific and clinical innovation in medical physics to improve human health, enhancing the value of aapm membership experience and services, promoting the leadership role of the organization and its members, cultivating excellence in medical physics education, practicing stewardship in continuous assessment fo programs and services, improving communication internally and externally, ensuring high quality patient care and championing equity diversity and including in the field of medical physics.

What it reported doing in 2024

Education and professional development - a scientific meeting is held annually to enable members to present the results of their latest research. In 2024 this meeting was held in-person and virtually. There were nearly 3000 participants and approximately 2200 preferred submissions. The program also drew over 109 exhibitors who presented their latest products and services to participants in-person and virtually. Sessions are segregated by professional interest and include imaging physics, therapy physics and professional issues and practices, in addition a spring clinical meeting is held devoted to the clinical issues facing medical physicists. A single-topic summer school is presented annually, and number of other special topic conferences are held throughout the year. To meet the educational and professional development needs of our members an increasing number of webinar programs were offered throughout the year as well.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 93% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 85
  • Transparency & Controls: 75
  • Accountability: 91
  • Sustainability: 32
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 88.4%; rating input score 88
  • Program expense ratio: 80.5%; rating input score 81
  • Fundraising efficiency: $58.24 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 14th 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: 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: 91.1%; rating input score 91; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th 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: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -8.3%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.32; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.24; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 16.6%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 88.4% of revenue deployed · 80.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 37 of 37 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $10.5M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $448K · 46 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $488K reported
  • Consistency: 40 of 41 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 19 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 8 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 54/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.