American Health Care Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 530260105
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2028424444
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $51,147,803
- Expenses
- $49,932,637
- Assets
- $46,231,695
- Liabilities
- $12,926,227
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
41 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARK PARKINSON (PRESIDENT & CEO - UNTIL 1/2025)
- CLIFTON PORTER (PRESIDENT & CEO)
- LASHUAN BETHEA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, NCAL)
Highest reported compensation
- MARK PARKINSON (PRESIDENT & CEO - UNTIL 1/2025): $2,203,587 total reported compensation
- CLIFTON PORTER (PRESIDENT & CEO): $1,670,377 total reported compensation
- MICHAEL BASSETT (VP, GOVERNMENT RELATIONS): $709,006 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Improving lives by delivering solutions for quality care.
What it reported doing in 2025
Education & communication: the association uses a variety of mechanisms to educate and communicate to members, policymakers, and the general public on post-acute and long-term care issues. The organization's primary trade journal, provider magazine, is circulated quarterly to over 50,000 post-acute facilities and interested parties. The magazine is also made available to the general public on the association's website along with weekly updates to members. The association also hosts an annual convention as well as other technical meetings, webinars and training programs throughout the year. Additionally, the association maintains an inventory of relevant industry publications and merchandise which are available for sale to members and nonmembers.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 93% 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: 88
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 1st 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: 99%; rating input score 99; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 65th 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: 2.4%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.93; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.28; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 22.8%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $2.2M · 41 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $4.8M reported
- Consistency: 13 of 15 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 57 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 38 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 45/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 59/100.