Ampp

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
741018374
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
Location
Houston, TX, USA
Phone
2812286200
Rating
62
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$44,631,316
Expenses
$20,168,006
Assets
$101,968,164
Liabilities
$10,094,145

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

Leadership & pay

15 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Alan Thomas (AMPP Chief Executive Officer)
  • Cynthia O'Malley (Executive Director and COO)
  • Pamela Nicoletti (President, MPI)

Highest reported compensation

  • Alan Thomas (AMPP Chief Executive Officer): $897,283 total reported compensation
  • Cynthia O'Malley (Executive Director and COO): $407,610 total reported compensation
  • Jennifer Colunga (Chief Financial Officer): $340,127 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Protect society, assets, and the environment from the effects of corrosion. and vision Advancing materials performance to protect society, assets and the environment with a focus on a world built and protected with safe, reliable, sustainable materials. View Our Goals. Today, Jeremi is a recognized industry leader, educator, and business owner. He owns a consulting firm, serves as President of CCI Inspection Services, manages coatings operations for Tarsco (a TF Warren Group company), and is part of the ownership group behind Corrosion Innovations, the manufacturer of Chlor*Rid, HoldTight, and Corr-Ze. As an AMPP Senior Certified Coatings Inspector and approved instructor, he teaches multiple AMPP flagship programs. As an AMPP Ambassador, he is honored to share decades of hands-on experience in support of coatings and corrosion excellence worldwide. Paola Andrea Postigo Rojas Paola...

What it reported doing in 2024

Publications & standards - providing technical literature through books, scientific journals, industry standards, magazines, directories and newsletters to approximately 18,894 persons

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 97% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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 most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 46
  • Transparency & Controls: 65
  • Accountability: 81
  • Sustainability: 89
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 30.9%; rating input score 31
  • Program expense ratio: 69.7%; rating input score 70
  • Fundraising efficiency: $13.96 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 75%; rating input score 75; 14th 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: 54.8%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.06; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0.6%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -4.9% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 10% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 30.9% of revenue deployed · 69.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 9 of 12 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 7 filed program accomplishments · $14.1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $897K · 15 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $486K reported
  • Consistency: 34 of 35 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 31/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 48/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.