American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 060636098
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025
- Location
- Silver Spring, MD, USA
- Phone
- 2023871968
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,618,506
- Expenses
- $3,660,355
- Assets
- $13,231,101
- Liabilities
- $1,614,406
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARGARET A NYGREN EDD FAAIDD (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
- ANTHONY RODRIGUEZ PHD FAAIDD (PRESIDENT)
- MELISSA A DISIPIO MSA FAAIDD (PRESIDENT UNTIL 06/2025)
- VINCENT CHESNEY MS FAAIDD (PRESIDENT ELECT)
- SARAH HALL PHD FAAIDD (VICE PRESIDENT)
- DAN ZHANG PHD FAAIDD (PAST PRESIDENT UNTIL 06/2025)
Highest reported compensation
- MARGARET A NYGREN EDD FAAIDD (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $307,508 total reported compensation
- PAUL D AITKEN (DIRECTOR, FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION): $180,734 total reported compensation
- RAVITA MAHARAJ PHD FAAIDD (DIRECTOR, ASSESSMENTS PROGRAM): $148,607 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 promote progressive policies, sound research, effective practices, and universal human rights for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
What it reported doing in 2025
Publications: aaidd educates the public on areas of intellectual and developmental disabilities both through its scholarly journals and its book program. In addition, aaidd offers tools used by disability professionals to gauge the support needed for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities to be able to live in community settings.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 89% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 50
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.5%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 83.2%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.2%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.61; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 17.4%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.4% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 79.5% of revenue deployed · 83.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $308K · 14 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $1M reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes foreign activity and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.