American Society for Public Administration

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 521204197
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2018–2024
Forms available: Form 990-EZ 2024
Location: Atlanta, GA, USA
Phone: 5135290163
Rating: 77
Verdict: SUPPORTED
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Education N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue: $154,089
Expenses: $111,431
Assets: $264,285
Liabilities: $41,515

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

People named in this filing

Christine Martell (Chair)
Justin Ross (Chair Elected)
Elaine Lu (Vice-Chair)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Professional Development

What it reported doing in 2024

Sponsored an annual in-person conference on public budgeting and financial management with approximately 220 attendee exposed to the most current research conducted by academics and practitioners.

Operating model

Revenue model: Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model: Direct operator. The filing allocates 91% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 60
Transparency & Controls: 100
Sustainability: 73
Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 52.2%; rating input score 52
Program expense ratio: 72.1%; rating input score 72

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

Operating margin: 27.7%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.37; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.16; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: -0.5% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: 12.1% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 52.2% of revenue deployed · 72.1% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $80K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
Schedules: 3 filed schedules
Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2024
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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 52/100.
High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.
High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.