Arizona Medical Association Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
860095708
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Phoenix, AZ, USA
Phone
6026476900
Rating
86
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Standard

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,478,682
Expenses
$1,763,352
Assets
$1,693,433
Liabilities
$886,352

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

Leadership & pay

28 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Doug Laher (CEO)
  • Jason Jameson MD (President)
  • James Nachbar MD (President Elect)

Highest reported compensation

  • Doug Laher (CEO): $136,146 total reported compensation
  • Mechelle Moore (COO): $129,915 total reported compensation
  • Nadeem Kazi MD (Im. Past Pres.): $7,133 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

The Arizona medical association is the strongest advocate, ally, and resource for Arizona's physicians and physicians-in-training. Together, we are fostering the practice of medicine, championing patient care, and strengthening the communities we serve.

What it reported doing in 2025

Arma serves the interest of member physicians in Arizona. In serving its members, arma provides the following activities:(1) advocacy - arma represents physician members before the legislatureand state agencies, health plans, media, and general public. Arma isactively involved to improve access to care throughout Arizona.(2) medical practice - arma offers support for practice operations.arma presents educational programs and online resources on buildingessential practice operational skills for all members.(3) arma has been a key leader in addressing the workforce shortages inarizona working with other healthcare stakeholders and the state todetermine plans of action to address workforce shortages and createstrategies to reduce shortages in the future.(4) arma has worked to address social determinants of health bylaunching the sdoh center of excellence, a step-by-step screening toolfor medical practices and worked with a cohort of private practices toimplement sdoh screening with their patients.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 67% 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

STRONG - 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 85
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Accountability: 98
  • Sustainability: 20
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 98.2%; rating input score 98
  • Program expense ratio: 80.3%; rating input score 80
  • Fundraising efficiency: $10.54 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 96.2%; rating input score 96; 28th 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: -19.3%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.96; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.52; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 15.5%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -6.6% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -0.2% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 98.2% of revenue deployed · 80.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 25 of 26 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.4M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $136K · 28 people listed
  • Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 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 37/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.