Amsat
Legal name: American Society for the Alexander Techniqueinc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 133402440
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Britton, SD, US
- Phone
- 937-586-3732
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $161,217
- Expenses
- $151,384
- Assets
- $275,443
- Liabilities
- $2,665
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- HANIF SMITH (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- AMANDA MACDONALD (DIRECTOR)
- ELENOR TAYLOR (IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIR)
- JULIA BULLARD (DIRECTOR)
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
AmSAT’s mission is to establish the Alexander Technique as a basic and recognized resource for health, productivity, and well-being. AmSAT serves the public through its educational initiatives and by upholding the highest standards of training for our teachers.
What it reported doing in 2025
Educational events are held that offer opportunities for interactive networking. The annual conference and other meetings are resources for information about the alexander technique and provide a learning environment concerning the requirements for teacher certification. In addition other meetings are necessary to plan for future programs and to assess present program activities. Membership benefits include a periodic newsletter, teacher profile listings on the website, and reduced professional liability insurance.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 66% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 84% 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. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 88
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.8%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 83%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 81.8%; rating input score 82; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.1%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.82; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.7% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 78.8% of revenue deployed · 83% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 11 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $126K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 21 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 16 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Independent members within voting members did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 40/100.