American Mental Health Counselors Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 521170350
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2022
- Location
- Alexandria, VA, USA
- Phone
- 7035486002
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,083,678
- Expenses
- $756,260
- Assets
- $850,590
- Liabilities
- $1,044,682
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DR YOON SUH MOH (President)
- COURTNEY ACKERSON (President ELECT)
- DR DIERDRA SANDERS-BURNETT (PAST PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DR YOON SUH MOH (President)
- COURTNEY ACKERSON (President ELECT)
- DR DIERDRA SANDERS-BURNETT (PAST PRESIDENT)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To enhance the profession of mental health counseling through licensing, advocacy, education and ethics.
What it reported doing in 2024
AMHCA provides information & services to its members and the public, including workshops, legislative activities, state licensure, and others services to meet the needs in the mental health community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 94% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 65.9%; rating input score 66
- Program expense ratio: 94.5%; rating input score 94
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 30.2%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.12; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.23; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.9% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.1% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.2% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 65.9% of revenue deployed · 94.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $715K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 23 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.