American Pistachio Growers
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 800359136
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Fresno, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5594750435
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $16,480,234
- Expenses
- $20,403,396
- Assets
- $10,199,133
- Liabilities
- $2,281,319
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
32 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ZACHARY FRASER (PRESIDENT/CEO)
- JOEL NELSON (FORMER INTERIM PRESIDENT/CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- SCOTT FRYER (VP, MARKETING): $279,535 total reported compensation
- AMBER WILSON - SR DIR (GLOBAL NUTRITION & MKTG - N AMER): $156,397 total reported compensation
- CADEE CONDIT (VP, GOVERNMENT RELATIONS): $154,260 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 organization is a voluntary member association whose purpose is to promote the pistachio industry by funding various research projects, monitoring world pistachio trade to look for unfair trade practices, and maintaining nutritional promotion programs.
What it reported doing in 2024
Various other program services including crisis management for pistachio recalls and a pistachio sample program in which one-serving sample packs are made and provided to various nonprofit organizations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 76% 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: 47
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 18
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- 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: -23.8%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.5; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.22; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.7%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $280K · 32 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $5.6M reported
- Consistency: 13 of 13 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and executive pay
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 38/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 55/100.