American Massage Therapy Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 620968813
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Evanston, IL, USA
- Phone
- 8779052700
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $24,050,245
- Expenses
- $23,192,296
- Assets
- $50,002,829
- Liabilities
- $17,477,478
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
22 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LISA STEGINK (CEO & GENERAL COUNSEL)
- JEFFERY FLOM (CEO)
- CHRISTINE BAILOR-GOODLANDER (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)
- CINDY E FARRAR (PRESIDENT-ELECT)
- KIMBERLY KANE-SANTOS (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- LISA STEGINK (CEO & GENERAL COUNSEL): $276,906 total reported compensation
- JEFFERY FLOM (CEO): $269,172 total reported compensation
- DAVID FRENCH (VP, MARKET RESEARCH & INSURANCE): $203,038 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To serve american massage therapy association (amta) members while advancing the art, science, and practice of massage therapy.
What it reported doing in 2024
We serve approximately 107,000 amta members by providing access to the knowledge and skills necessary to competently practice massage therapy, information resources and tools; and, creating consumer preference for amta professional classification members. These services are carried out nationally and through 51 amta chapters.products and services include: continuing education through a variety of vehicles, including face-to-face, online, and in periodicals. Number served - 100,000.providing business-related publications, periodicals, and products, including mtj, massage today, hands on newsletter, student experience e-newsletter, amta's career center, amta's massage therapy information center/help desk, professional and general liability insurance, and other affinity programs. In addition, the association provides industry data and statistics to massage therapy schools to enhance their ability to train qualified massage therapists.copies of periodicals issued - over 1,000,000 annually.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 94% 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: 87
- Accountability: 72
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 60
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; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 99.8%; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 75%; rating input score 75; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.6%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.16; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.35; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.1%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 9 of 12 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $277K · 22 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.6M reported
- Consistency: 12 of 12 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 24 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 29/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 41/100.