Americans United for Life Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 363906065
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2022891478
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Freedom of Religion Issues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,219,370
- Expenses
- $3,496,361
- Assets
- $1,257,033
- Liabilities
- $514,374
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- John Mize (Chief Executive Officer)
- Evangeline Bartz (Exec. Advisor to the CEO & Sr. Policy Counsel)
Highest reported compensation
- Steven Aden (CLO & General Counsel): $228,437 total reported compensation
- John Mize (Chief Executive Officer): $223,386 total reported compensation
- Kevin Tordoff (Chief Marketing Officer & Chief Impact Officer): $216,288 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
AUL is an organization that advances the human right to life in culture, law, and policy.
What it reported doing in 2024
Litigation and Legal Affairs - AUL works through the courts to defend life and protect the first amendment freedom of conscience. AUL has a combined litigation and legislation strategy, drafting, advising, and providing model pro-life legislation to legislators, working to help it get passed, and then assisting attorneys general in defending pro-life laws, including filing amicus curiae briefs in support of laws based on our models.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 91% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 14
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 84.3%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.26 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8.6%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.36; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.41; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 28.7%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.2% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.9% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.4% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 92% of revenue deployed · 84.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $2.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $228K · 15 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 31/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.