American Gaming Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 931169142
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2025522675
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $18,458,331
- Expenses
- $15,459,342
- Assets
- $36,994,357
- Liabilities
- $8,842,944
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
74 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- WILLIAM C MILLER JR (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- WILLIAM C MILLER JR (PRESIDENT & CEO): $2,520,274 total reported compensation
- CHRIS CYLKE (SVP GOVERNMENT RELATIONS): $736,732 total reported compensation
- DANIEL BRETL (SVP OPERATIONS (TERM 08/16/2024)): $645,560 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
With membership representing every corner of the gaming industry, the aga serves as the industry's champion across the country by advocating on consequential industry issues. Our mission is to foster a policy and business environment where legal, regulated gaming thrives. The aga leads a rigorous and inclusive process to advance industry priorities that enable growth, modernization and continued success.
What it reported doing in 2024
The association advocates on behalf of the $329 billion u.s. Casino industry, which supports 1.8 million jobs across the country. Members include commercial and tribal casino operators, suppliers and other entities affiliated with the gaming industry. The aga serves as an authority on casino gaming research, providing information to its members, the media, elected officials, other decision-makers, and the public. In 2024, the aga worked to shape a favorable federal policy environment for regulated gaming, pursued and protected core industry interests, promoted the social and economic value of gaming, enhanced responsible gaming commitments, and created more favorable business environments in gaming states. Through its global gaming expo family of events, the aga created forums both in the u.s. And asia, for casino gaming professionals worldwide to conduct business, learn and network, thereby furthering their professional development.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 96% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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: 67
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- 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: 97.6%; rating input score 98; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th 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: 16.2%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.39; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.24; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 44.9%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 62 of 62 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $2.5M · 74 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.5M reported
- Consistency: 13 of 14 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 26 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 11 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 53/100.