American Society of Landscape Architects

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
530259019
IRS 990 coverage
2014–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2010, Form 990-N 2015
Location
Washington, DC, USA
Phone
2028982444
Rating confidence
Limited

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$12,946,386
Expenses
$13,394,610
Assets
$14,875,791
Liabilities
$7,197,368

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

68 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • BRADLEY MCCAULEY (PRESIDENT-ELECT)
  • KONA GRAY (PRESIDENT)
  • SULIN KOTOWICZ (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)
  • TOREY CARTER-CONNEEN (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)

Highest reported compensation

  • TOREY CARTER-CONNEEN (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $567,674 total reported compensation
  • GREG COHEN (TREASURER/CFO): $282,646 total reported compensation
  • KATHLEEN THOMAS (SALES MANAGER): $268,852 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Empowering our members to design a sustainable and equitable world through landscape architecture. Put simply, asla helps its members create a world that's both fair and good for the environment through landscape architecture. Asla works hard to put its members first and expand the landscape architecture profession. We want our members to see us as a valuable community where they can grow professionally and find leaders in their field. We focus on what matters most: helping current and future landscape architects, teaming up with groups that share our values, and championing new ideas. We also ensure asla is strong and can make a big impact. We give our members a voice, spread the word about landscape architecture, and teach people why it's so important.

What it reported doing in 2025

Asla membership makes a difference. Asla supports a vibrant and growing community of nearly 17,000 members, providing landscape architects at every stage of their careers with connection and opportunity. In 2025, the organization invested more than half of its budget directly into member services and education, ensuring access to professional development, networking, and essential resources. Asla actively defended the profession by tracking more than 80 bills related to licensure and successfully opposing deregulation efforts. Members benefited from new resources, including a series of four regional conversations among those who lived through wildfires, floods, hurricanes, and other disasters focused on ways to build stronger, more adaptable communities. National outreach efforts, such as the our beliefs & our actions campaign ensured asla remained steadfast in our mission to advocate for landscape architects, advance climate resilience, and champion equitable, community-driven design, as well as elevate public awareness of landscape architecture and the value of the profession. Through events, chapter activities, and national initiatives, asla fostered a more connected, visible, and empowered community for all members.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 99% 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: 82
  • Accountability: 91
  • Sustainability: 20
  • 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Pass
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 99.5%; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
    • 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: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -3.5%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.11; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.48; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 15.5%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 60 of 60 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $568K · 68 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2M reported
  • Consistency: 15 of 15 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes grants, executive pay, and related organizations
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 3 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.