American Public Works Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 362202880
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Kansas City, MO, US
- Phone
- (816) 472-6100
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $34,418,137
- Expenses
- $30,097,206
- Assets
- $53,098,033
- Liabilities
- $11,879,179
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
27 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DOMINICK LONGOBARDI (PRESIDENT)
- VIC BIANES (PRESIDENT-ELECT)
- W GARY LOSIER (PAST PRESIDENT)
- KEIGH PUGH (PAST PRESIDENT (TERM END 8/2024))
- SCOTT GRAYSON (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- SCOTT GRAYSON (CEO): $542,469 total reported compensation
- JULIE BEBERMEYER (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $255,632 total reported compensation
- ANDREA EALES (DIRECTOR OF GOV'T & PUBLIC AFFAIRS): $232,169 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To promote the advancement of public works professionals and the public works industry.
What it reported doing in 2024
Chapter services: this program provides leadership and strategic planning, training, chapter capacity building and mentoring services to our 62 chapters and more than 90 branches and the volunteer members serving in leadership roles throughout north america. Program services include funding a bi-annual leadership training, a "council of chapters" meeting to address info-sharing, best practices, strategic planning, membership recruitment and retention and involvement of young professionals. (continued on schedule o)apwa funds travel for national staff and national board members to participate in local apwa leadership (strategic planning) meetings and educational events; general liability insurance; rebates to help fund local initiatives and other administrative fees associated with doing business at the local level are funded through this program as well.chapter activities: on a local level, we have 62 active chapters and more than 90 active branches which provide educational and technical training to local members of apwa well as other public works professionals via educational conferences, seminars, workshops, technical tours and training courses on various topics surrounding the public works profession. These chapters also provide services to their local communities via public outreach to k-12 students, funding stipends/sponsorships of local agency efforts for training and professional development and educational scholarships to university students entering the engineering or public works related fields.
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 95% 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 most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 65
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.4%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 76.6%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- 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: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Claims monitoring procedures: Fail
- 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: 37.9%; rating input score 38; 10th 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: 12.6%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.76; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.22; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.4%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 10 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 72.4% of revenue deployed · 76.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $23.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $542K · 27 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.9M reported
- Consistency: 38 of 41 current checks pass · 3 findings to review
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 8 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 38/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 47/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 55/100.