American Chemical Society
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 526044743
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- New Windsor, MD, USA
- Phone
- 7656690807
- Rating
- 49
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Chemistry, Chemical Engineering
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $76,508
- Expenses
- $76,584
- Assets
- $456,230
- Liabilities
- $3,738
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
People named in this filing
- Jiangnan Peng (Past Chair)
- Beatrice Salazar (Chair)
- Louise Hellwig (Secretary)
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
Chemistry Professional Society and Science Education
What it reported doing in 2025
Awards, Scholarships, Summer Research Internships, and Travel Grants for Chemistry Students to attend Scientific Conferences.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue 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: 20
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 19.7%; rating input score 20
- Program expense ratio: 19.7%; rating input score 20
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.1%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.96; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -8.2% per year; rating input score 0; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 19.7% of revenue deployed · 19.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $15K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 20/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 20/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.