American Pet Products Association Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
136146744
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Stamford, CT, USA
Phone
2035320000
Rating confidence
Limited

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$17,498,323
Expenses
$16,464,043
Assets
$30,228,967
Liabilities
$13,533,789

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

Leadership & pay

24 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • PETER SCOTT (CEO & PRESIDENT)
  • ANNE E SANDOVAL (VICE PRESIDENT OF CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS)
  • KEVIN LACY (VICE PRESIDENT OF FINANCE ADMINISTRATION)
  • ALISON MCINTYRE (VICE PRESIDENT, PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT & STRATEGY)
  • JOSEPH STERN (VICE PRESIDENT OF CREATIVE AND BRAND EXPERIENCE)
  • INGRID CHU (VICE PRESIDENT, RESEARCH &)

Highest reported compensation

  • PETER SCOTT (CEO & PRESIDENT): $594,935 total reported compensation
  • JEREMY BAKER (CHIEF GROWTH OFFICER): $469,948 total reported compensation
  • JULIA FIDENZIO-ALICEA (CHIEF LEGAL OFFICER): $387,642 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Appa's mission is to promote responsible pet care and advance the pet products industry. To accomplish these objectives and to provide members with valuable benefits, appa works hard to develop programs and services which serve its members' unique needs. By conducting industry-related market research and holding educational seminars and teleconferences, appa helps keep its members informed about important industry information, and gives them the tools they need to make important business decisions.

What it reported doing in 2024

Promoting pet ownership & the pet industry: in 2005, appa implemented the pal (pets add life) psa campaign. The pal campaign is designed to encourage people to appreciate the value of pet ownership, teach people to be responsible pet owners, and promote the importance of pet ownership to good mental health, companionship and love. The pal campaign delivers a wide variety of importnat pet related messages to a vast audience using public service announcements, display ads, posters, brochures, and news stories. For more information visit www.petsaddlife.org.to further promote the pet industry and to more clearly define its goals and objectives, appa has played an integral role in establishing pet leadership council, a group comprised of a collaboration of diverse leaders within the pet industry. This group has identified key issues facing the industry and is currently taking steps to address those issues.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 93% 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: 82
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 48
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

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

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Pass
    • 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th 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: 5.9%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.84; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.45; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 28%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $595K · 24 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2M reported
  • Consistency: 13 of 14 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 28 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 10 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.