American Association of Political Consultants
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 521679637
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- McLean, VA, USA
- Phone
- 7032458020
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,810,897
- Expenses
- $2,782,170
- Assets
- $1,723,930
- Liabilities
- $308,400
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
36 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Larry Huynh (President)
- Kyle Roberts (Vice President)
- Alana Joyce (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Alana Joyce (Executive Director): $258,457 total reported compensation
- Rebecca aka Souleymane (Director, Meetings & Operations): $152,432 total reported compensation
- Avery Walker (Director, AAPC Foundation): $134,032 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To raise the standards of practice in political consultation, thereby enhancing the political process and improving public confidence in the American political system. To provide professional guidance, assistance, and education to members as they develop the skills, techniques, and business procedures required for successful political consultation. To establish and maintain a high standard of ethical conduct through membership education and the establishment and promotion of a workable Code of Professional Ethics for members. To help inform the news media, educational institutions, political organizations, and the general public about the value of political consultation and its contribution to the political process. To place particular emphasis in our work on reaching out to involve and educate young people in the art of political consultation and in the benefits it brings to the practice of democracy.
What it reported doing in 2024
Conferences: held annual conference, regional conferences, discussions, networking and education on political consultation to enhance public image and prestige of those individuals and companies in the industry and disseminate and exchange ideas and other information.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 98% 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: 63
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Pass
- 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: 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: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.62; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 24.3%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 32 of 32 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $258K · 36 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $855K reported
- Consistency: 10 of 11 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- 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.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.