APIS Services Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 821809627
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Reading, PA, USA
- Phone
- 4842693508
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $67,318,531
- Expenses
- $60,234,769
- Assets
- $224,918,760
- Liabilities
- $198,258,481
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ryan D Smith (President)
- Victoria Niedermayer (CEO - Helping Restore Ability)
Highest reported compensation
- Ryan D Smith (President): $1,489,010 total reported compensation
- Michael Herr (Director): $915,607 total reported compensation
- Thomas S Papa Chief Intr (& Bus. Dev. Officer until 12/5/24): $595,409 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Apis manages HR, risk, and other core administrative responsibilities reducing back-office complexity and strengthening day-to-day operations.
What it reported doing in 2024
Providing operational, management, and administrative services to affiliated organizations in fulfilling their respective missions.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 85% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and most filed governance safeguards are in place. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 52
- Transparency & Controls: 89
- Accountability: 71
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 45.5%; rating input score 45
- Program expense ratio: 81.1%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th 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: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 50%; rating input score 50; 13th 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: 10.5%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.73; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.88; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.6%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 41.8% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 29.6% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 30.9% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 45.5% of revenue deployed · 81.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 4 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $48.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.5M · 12 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $4.7M reported
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay and related organizations
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 32 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 45/100.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.