American Peanut Research and Education Society
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237040074
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Alexandria, VA, USA
- Phone
- 2293292949
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Agricultural Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $172,258
- Expenses
- $142,883
- Assets
- $230,019
- Liabilities
- $30,900
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Maria Balota (President)
- Rebecca Bennett (Past President)
- Greg MacDonald (President-Elect)
People named in this filing
- Maria Balota (President)
- Rebecca Bennett (Past President)
- Greg MacDonald (President-Elect)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The purpose of this Society shall be to instruct and educate the public on the properties, production, and use of the peanut through the organization and promotion of public discussion groups, forums, lectures, and otherprograms or presentation to the interested public and to promote scientific research on the properties, production, and use of the peanut by providing forums, treatises, magazines, and other forms of educational material for the publication of scientific information and research papers on the peanut and the dissemination of such information to the interested public.
What it reported doing in 2025
Peanut Science, a journal, is published by the Organization and is made available to members of APRES, interested individuals and organizations, and libraries.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 80% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 96% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Assets have declined or grown slowly and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 61%; rating input score 61
- Program expense ratio: 76.5%; rating input score 77
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17.1%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.61; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 61% of revenue deployed · 76.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $109K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.