American Rock Mechanics Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 541758092
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Eaton, CO, USA
- Phone
- 7038011088
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $573,012
- Expenses
- $557,939
- Assets
- $633,587
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GABRIEL WALTON (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ZACH AGIOUTANTIS (DIRECTOR)
- CHLOE ARSON (DIRECTOR)
- ANDREW BUNGER (PAST PRESIDE)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Sole direct link in the us to teachers and students in the field of rock mechanics and rock engineering. Serves as an advocate for firms and individuals who represent all aspects of rock mechanics and rock engineering to disseminate information through meetings, publications and the internet.
What it reported doing in 2025
The us rock mechanics symposium serves as the direct link in the united states to the professionals, firms, educators and students in the fields of rock mechanics and rock engineering.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 90% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 6
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97.5%; rating input score 97
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.6%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.14; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.3% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.9% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 97.5% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 14 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 15 of 15 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.