American Psychiatric Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 522168499
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2025593900
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $58,199,477
- Expenses
- $60,852,453
- Assets
- $182,107,615
- Liabilities
- $53,296,494
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
43 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- THERESA MISKIMEN RIVERA (PRESIDENT ELECT (FROM 6/24))
- SAUL LEVIN (CEO & MEDICAL DIRECTOR (UNTIL 5/24))
- MARKETA WILLS (CEO & MEDICAL DIRECTOR (FROM 5/24))
- RAWLE ANDREWS JR (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, APAF)
Highest reported compensation
- SAUL LEVIN (CEO & MEDICAL DIRECTOR (UNTIL 5/24)): $674,773 total reported compensation
- MARKETA WILLS (CEO & MEDICAL DIRECTOR (FROM 5/24)): $471,742 total reported compensation
- REGINA SMITH JAMES - CHIEF (DIV. & HEALTH EQUITY & DEP. MED. DIR.): $444,243 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 psychiatric association (apa) was incorporated in 2000 as a 501(c)(6) trade association. Its 38,000 u.s. And international physician members specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of mental health and disorders, including substance use.
What it reported doing in 2024
Publications - the apa is the leading publisher of books, journals, and electronic products for the psychiatric community. It publishes over 30 textbooks and monographs, journals, cme programs, and a news publication on digital and print platforms. All periodicals and selected books are featured on the electronic platform "psychiatryonline". This online resource offers e-books, journals, news, and semantically linked content searchable by topic. A main component of the print, e-book, and online publications program is the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm), the standard classification of mental disorders used by mental health professionals in the united states that contains a listing of diagnostic criteria for every psychiatric disorder recognized by the u.s. Health care system.the current edition, dsm-5, is used by professionals in a wide array of contexts, including psychiatrists and other physicians, psychologists, social workers, nurses, occupational and rehabilitation therapists, and counselors, as well as by clinicians and researchers of many different orientations (e.g., biological, psychodynamic, cognitive, behavioral, interpersonal, family/systems). It is used in both clinical settings as well as with community populations. In addition to supplying detailed descriptions of diagnostic criteria, dsm is also a necessary tool for collecting and communicating accurate public health statistics about the diagnosis of psychiatric disorders. The news publication, psychiatric news, covers news, clinical advances, practice management information, and legislative highlights, with a spotlight on the apa efforts to achieve parity in mental health care. It represents the voice of apa and the psychiatric community to promote quality care for individuals with mental disorders. Apa publications provide a broad topic oriented analysis of current psychiatric clinical practice and literature, as well as cme credit and moc activities for self-assessment and improved practice performance.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 86% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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: 76
- Accountability: 87
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 85%; rating input score 85; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.6%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.99; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.29; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.1%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 17 of 20 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $675K · 43 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2M reported
- Consistency: 17 of 18 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 33 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 15 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 7 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 56/100.