Anxiety & Depression Association of America

Legal name: Anxiety and Depression Association of America

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
521248820
IRS 990 coverage
2013–2025
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025
Location
Silver Spring, MD, USA
Phone
2404851001
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,359,820
Expenses
$2,512,842
Assets
$5,502,995
Liabilities
$609,347

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

Leadership & pay

16 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • HELEN BLAIR SIMPSON MD PHD (PRESIDENT)
  • SANJAY MATHEW MD (PRESIDENT-ELECT)
  • CHARLES NEMEROFF MD PHD (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)
  • SUSAN GURLEY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • LISE BRAM (DEPUTY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • SUSAN GURLEY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $289,476 total reported compensation
  • LISE BRAM (DEPUTY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $238,936 total reported compensation
  • KATHERINE HOCKER SR DIRECTOR (OF STRATEGIC BUS. DEV. & OPERATIONS): $203,721 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

ADAA is dedicated to the prevention, treatment, and cure of anxiety, depression, OCD, PTSD, and co-occurring disorders through education, practice, and research.

What it reported doing in 2025

Conference and other professional education - adaa offers a comprehensive range of continuing education ("ce") and non-ce professional development resources for mental health professionals specializing in anxiety, depression, ocd, ptsd, and related disorders. These opportunities include adaa's flagship annual conference, live and on-demand webinars, awards and grant programs, peer-to-peer networking and collaboration, and professional publishing opportunities through adaa's peer-reviewed journal of mood & anxiety disorders.adaa's educational programs are strengthened by the generous pro bono contributions of its members, who develop and share evidence-based resources for both the public and fellow mental health professionals.--annual conference - adaa's annual conference convenes a multi-disciplinary network of clinicians, researchers, and educators to exchange knowledge and elevate clinical care. The 2025 in-person conference in las vegas welcomed over 1,000 professionals, offering ce/cme credits (including ethics and suicide prevention), symposia, workshops, poster sessions, and networking opportunities. Most sessions undergo peer review to ensure clinical and scientific rigor.--adaa professional education webinars - adaa's professional webinar series delivers cutting-edge research and clinical content on timely and complex mental health topics. Most webinars offer ce/continuing medical education ("cme") credits-available free to adaa members-and are designed to equip professionals with actionable insights and evidence-based strategies.--adaa offers professional education related awards programs - adaa offers two key professional education awards programs that support early-career clinicians and researchers in the field of anxiety, depression, and related disorders. The career development leadership program ("cdlp") supports early-career clinicians and researchers with mentorship and a dedicated day of evidence-based programming during the annual conference. In 2025, 33 cdlp awards were granted. The application process is vigorous, and applications are reviewed by a group of reviewers. The award benefits include two years of complimentary adaa membership, $500 stipend, complimentary conference registration and mentorship and specialized development programming at the annual conference. The klein award supports emerging researchers seeking to expand the reach, visibility, and publication impact of their work. Applications are reviewed by members of the scientific council. Awardees are encouraged to submit their research to adaa's professional journal, further supporting dissemination within the field. The klein award also provides for free membership and free conference registration. To date, adaa has given out over one million dollars in grant and award support.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 76
  • Transparency & Controls: 67
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 30
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 81.1%; rating input score 81
  • Program expense ratio: 75.3%; rating input score 75
  • Fundraising efficiency: $16.92 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 50%; rating input score 50; 20th 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: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -6.5%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.19; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 29.1%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 14.2% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site
  • Where the money goes: 81.1% of revenue deployed · 75.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.9M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $289K · 16 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $324K reported
  • Consistency: 36 of 37 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 50/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 54/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grants require schedule f did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.