American Medical Association

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
360727175
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Chicago, IL, USA
Phone
3124645000
Rating confidence
Limited

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$546,239,123
Expenses
$426,572,778
Assets
$1,478,782,477
Liabilities
$328,027,325

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

41 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JESSE M EHRENFELD MD (PRESIDENT/PAST PRESIDENT)
  • BOBBY MUKKAMALA MD (TRUSTEE/PRESIDENT-ELECT)
  • JACK RESNECK JR MD (PAST PRESIDENT (THRU JUNE 2024))
  • BRUCE A SCOTT MD (PRESIDENT-ELECT/PRESIDENT)
  • JAMES L MADARA MD (EVP & CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • KAREN A MAYBANK MD (SVP & CHIEF HLTH EQUITY OFFICER): $3,484,519 total reported compensation
  • JAMES L MADARA MD (EVP & CEO): $3,062,109 total reported compensation
  • KENNETH J SHARIGIAN (SVP & CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER): $1,645,705 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 promote the art and science of medicine and the betterment of public health.

What it reported doing in 2024

I. Improving health outcomes, quality of care and public healthii. Accelerating change in medical education. Advancing improvements in undergraduate medical education and graduate medical education, health system science.iii. Improving professional satisfaction and practice sustainability for physicians in all practice typesiv. Professionalism and ethicsv. Undergraduate, graduate and continuing medical education policy & researchvi. Science, research & technologyvii. Political educationviii. Judicial advocacyix. International medicinex. Health policy research & developmentxi. Medical practice books and contentxii. Strengthening, amplifying, and sustaining ama's work to improving health outcomes and closing disparity gapsxiii. Interest group research and support for medical students, residents and fellows; young physicians; women physicians; senior physicians; integrated physician practices; organized medical staff; academic physicians; private practice physicians; international medical graduates; minority affairs; lgbtq+ issues

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 86% 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: 68
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 75
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Pass
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
  • Grant itemization coverage: 84.6%; rating input score 85; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th 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: 21.9%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.47; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.22; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 4.7%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 21 of 21 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $3.5M · 41 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $7.9M reported
  • Consistency: 12 of 13 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 182 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 149 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 19/100.