American Coatings Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 530115900
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2024626272
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $7,780,865
- Expenses
- $10,100,022
- Assets
- $40,853,021
- Liabilities
- $17,373,103
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
50 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- James Andrew Doyle (President & CEO (thru 1/15/26))
- Michael Johnson (President & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Michael Johnson (President & CEO): $1,188,732 total reported compensation
- James Andrew Doyle (President & CEO (thru 1/15/26)): $540,048 total reported compensation
- Jeff Wasikowski (SVP, GC, and Corp Secretary): $384,846 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Association shall advance the interests of the coatings industry and serve as its chief advocate and spokesperson before the government and public; domestically and globally. See Schedule O for continuation
What it reported doing in 2025
Government Affairs and Advocacy: ACA's Paint Councils are a network of grassroots organizations representing the association in its efforts to promote the interests of the coatings industry at the state level. ACA's Paint Councils provide a forum for companies doing business in those states to interact with each other and with their elected officials. Administration and coordination of the Paint Council Network is overseen by the association's government affairs committee. Experience, to date, has shown that an organized, informed membership can make a significant difference in the outcome of public policy debates concerning coatings industry issues. Paint Council membership and participation is available to ACA corporate members only, since it is membership dues that support the work of the Paint Councils. Actions taken by each Paint Council are determined by its membership at regularly scheduled meetings throughout the year. Each Paint Council has professional staff for lobbying and association management.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 91% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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: 94
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 20
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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -29.8%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.04; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.43; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 26.9%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 41 of 41 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.2M · 50 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $154K reported
- Consistency: 14 of 14 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay and related organizations
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 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.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.