Artist Management Association
Legal name: Artist Management Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 853078756
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2021
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, US
- Phone
- 4158193790
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $216,118
- Expenses
- $240,541
- Assets
- $62,695
- Liabilities
- $5,435
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Mary Dail (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Jennifer Judkins (Secretary): $121,793 total reported compensation
- Denise Gilmartin (Director): $16,575 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide leadership, shared resources and information, and a voice for its members in the creative industry, with the goal of improving the industry’s ability to serve artists, clients, and employees.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Artist Management Association (AMA) is a trade association whose membership includes companies whose primary function is the representation of creative talent working in the commercial advertising and editorial industries, as well as independent commercial production companies. Our members demonstrate a commitment to developing talent, producing high-quality creative work, and contributing meaningfully to the commercial visual arts industry.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 93% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 54
- Sustainability: 16
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 96.8%; rating input score 97
- Program expense ratio: 87%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -11.3%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.26; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 57.5%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4.4% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 96.8% of revenue deployed · 87% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 15 board members independent · 0 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $122K · 17 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 21 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX CompCurrentOfficersDirectors column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.