American Chemical Society
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 356041348
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Saint Joseph, MI, USA
- Phone
- 2692810055
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $11,078
- Expenses
- $8,503
- Assets
- $63,782
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
People named in this filing
- Katie Woolard (Chair)
- James Clark (Chair Elect)
- Lisa Ahlberg (Past Chair)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The acs is a federally chartered organization whose mission is to advance the broader chemistry enterprise & its practitioners for the benefit of earth & its people.
What it reported doing in 2025
Payments for 9 Students to attend National ACS meeting and VP elect for training to lead a future GLRM meeting. $4000 for National Chemistry Week serving approximately 600 secondary students. Spent 208.55 to run CCEW science fair for secondary students. Spent $500 to run Chem Fest for secondary students.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 70% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 81% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 49
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 76
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 44.9%; rating input score 45
- Program expense ratio: 55.4%; rating input score 55
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 23.2%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.5; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 37.3% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.5% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 44.9% of revenue deployed · 55.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 45/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 55/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.