American Seniors Housing Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 522261594
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2028855560
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,659,476
- Expenses
- $5,241,966
- Assets
- $11,567,192
- Liabilities
- $4,099,122
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
159 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DAVID SCHLESS (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- DAVID SCHLESS (PRESIDENT): $770,042 total reported compensation
- JEANNE MCGLYNN (VP, GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS): $335,481 total reported compensation
- DORIS MAULTSBY (VP, MEMBER SERVICES): $200,128 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To address unique challenges of housing the nation's growing population of older adults. The association provides leadership for the seniors housing industry on legislative and regulatory matters and promotes research and education about senior living communities.
What it reported doing in 2025
Government affairs: asha is focused on representing the interests of companies that develop, finance, and operate seniors housing. Asha's active advocacy participation relates primarily to federal matters, though the association carefully monitors state policy and, at times, involves itself in state-related advocacy.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 85% 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: 74
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 45
- 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 7.4%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.21; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.35; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 27.6%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 155 of 155 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $770K · 159 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.1M reported
- Consistency: 13 of 13 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.