American Osteopathic Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 362170786
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 3122028115
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Medical Disciplines
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $35,774,516
- Expenses
- $35,070,149
- Assets
- $109,137,324
- Liabilities
- $27,634,248
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
43 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- IRA P MONKA DO (IMM. PAST PRESIDENT - AS OF 07/24)
- TERESA A HUBKA DO (PRESIDENT - AS OF 07/24)
- ROBERT GG PICCININI DO (PRESIDENT ELECT - AS OF 07/24)
- ERNEST R GELB DO (PAST PRESIDENT - AS OF 07/24)
- JOSEPH GIAIMO DO (PAST PRESIDENT - UNTIL 07/24)
- W ASHLEY HOOD DO 1ST VICE (PRESIDENT - UNTIL 07/24, TRUSTEE)
Highest reported compensation
- KATHLEEN S CREASON (CEO, BOARD SECRETARY): $560,272 total reported compensation
- DENNIS RIZZO (CFO): $285,983 total reported compensation
- IRA P MONKA DO (IMM. PAST PRESIDENT - AS OF 07/24): $283,150 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The american osteopathic association (aoa) is a membership association representing more than 168,000 osteopathic physicians (do) and osteopathic medical students. As the primary certifying body for do and the accrediting agency for all osteopathic medical schools, the aoa works to accentuate the distinctiveness of osteopathic principles and the diversity of the profession. The aoa further, through these activities and others, promotes public health, works to meet public health needs through osteopathic medicine and encourages scientific research. In addition, the aoa advocates at the state and federal levels on issues that affect do, osteopathic medical students and patients.
What it reported doing in 2024
Publications: the aoa publishes 1 peer-reviewed academic medical journal: journal of osteopathic medicine. This online-only publication was established in 1901 and is the premier scholarly, peer-reviewed publication of the osteopathic medical profession. It provides continuing medical education (cme) to osteopathic physicians (do) and other allied healthcare practitioners, and it complements the education of osteopathic medical students. Jom now offers its content in an open access model, so all articles are freely available to the public, and more than 145,000 readers receive the electronic tables of contents for jom. In addition, the aoa produces an online news publication, the do, that is received by over 125,000 osteopathic physicians and medical students.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 86% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% 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 most voting board members are independent. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 56
- Transparency & Controls: 89
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.8%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 60.7%; rating input score 61
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 17th 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: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 95.6%; rating input score 96; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 89.3%; rating input score 89; 22nd 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%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.11; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.25; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.6%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -7.1% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 63.8% of revenue deployed · 60.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 25 of 28 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $21.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $560K · 43 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $3.4M reported
- Consistency: 37 of 38 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 45 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 12 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 26/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 52/100.