American Society of Addiction Medicine
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 133177396
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025, Form 990-N 2011
- Location
- Rockville, MD, USA
- Phone
- 3016563920
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alcohol, Drug and Substance Abuse, Dependency Prevention and Treatment
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $16,777,796
- Expenses
- $14,515,201
- Assets
- $17,952,679
- Liabilities
- $3,153,876
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
32 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- STEPHEN M TAYLOR MD (PRESIDENT)
- TIMOTHY WIEGAND MD (PRESIDENT-ELECT)
- CARA A POLAND MD (VICE PRESIDENT)
- BRIAN HURLEY MD (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)
- JULIA L CHANG (CEO/EXECUTIVE-VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JULIA L CHANG (CEO/EXECUTIVE-VICE PRESIDENT): $410,891 total reported compensation
- CAROLYN C LANHAM (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $299,001 total reported compensation
- MAUREEN BOYLE (CHIEF QUALITY & SCIENCE OFFICER): $296,258 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 increase access to and improve the quality of addiction treatment; to educate physicians, other health care providers and the public; to support research and prevention; to promote the appropriate role of the physician in the care of patients with addiction; and to establish addiction medicine as a specialty recognized by professional organizations, governments, physicians, purchasers and consumers of health care services, and the general public.
What it reported doing in 2025
Publications - foster knowledge and interest in the field of addiction medicine by publishing newsletters, journals, and guidelines for all members and non-members.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 61% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 96% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 60%; rating input score 60
- Program expense ratio: 68.5%; rating input score 69
- Fundraising efficiency: $17.31 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th 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; 64th 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: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13.5%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.24; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 17.4%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.3% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 60% of revenue deployed · 68.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 22 of 22 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $9.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $411K · 32 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $954K reported
- Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 16 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 6 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.
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 50/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 55/100.