American Asthma Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 208452401
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2011
- Forms available
- Form 990 2011
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4154043420
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Health
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $10,930,897
- Expenses
- $9,114,348
- Assets
- $3,129,178
- Liabilities
- $518,852
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2011. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2011. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The american asthma foundation's (aaf) mission is to improve treatment, prevent, and find a cure for asthma, a chronic lung disease affecting 25 million americans. In order to achieve these goals, the foundation fosters highly innovative, cutting-edge research through the aaf's research program (aafrp), an international grants program designed to recruit outstanding investigators not involved in asthma research. In 2011, the aaf made almost $8 million in research grants to universities and research centers in the united states, canada, the united kingdom, and australia to further its mission.
What it reported doing in 2011
Research funded by the american asthma foundation has:- produced 26 research breakthroughs, of which 14 have drawn support from the biotech and pharmaceutical industries and 4 have advanced to clinical trials (details about the aaf's research breakthroughs are maintained on http://www.americanasthmafoundation.org/research-program/ research-breakthroughs);- attracted over 350 investigators into the field of asthma research;- attracted almost $60 million in additional funding for asthma research from other sources; and - resulted in the publication of 375 scientific papers in prestigious medical and scientific journals.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Affiliate-supported. 75% of the money available for current operations came from contributions from related organizations.
- 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: 74
- Accountability: 89
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: NotEnoughData
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; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Pass
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 16.6%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.34; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.17; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.8%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 8 of 9 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $8.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $422K · 11 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Money network: 28 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 29 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 6 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is recorded as not currently operating in California.