Association for Athletic Training Education Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 832113342
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Indianapolis, IN, USA
- Phone
- 8593384479
- Rating
- 40
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $137,614
- Expenses
- $129,983
- Assets
- $266,402
- Liabilities
- $69,990
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JENNIFER VOLBERDING PHD (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JENNIFER VOLBERDING PHD (PRESIDENT)
- MATT LEWIS PHD (TREASURER)
- STACY WALKER PHD (SECRETARY)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to provide a community that serves as a responsive and progressive voice to advance the athletic training profession through education.
What it reported doing in 2025
Advocacy: maintained and promoted a website (at each | moment) to assist students looking for a career in athletic training, athletic trainers exploring education options, and advisors who help students find health careers. The site features all programs on an interactive map and provides valuable information to prospective students about the at career, at education options, and the application process. The site also supplies advisors with assistance about the career path and applications for education enrollment. Hosted a virtual fair for member institutions to meet online with prospective students.resources: provided ongoing continuing education courses providing instruction for building program resources to address standards required for accreditation.research: published primary research findings in multiple professional journals. Topics included interprofessional & collaborative practice & progressive autonomy in clinical education, and presented findings relating to recruitment practices in at education.community: the aate continues to host #aateconverstations, engage members through work group activities, and we have significantly expanded our social media reach to encourage engagement. Hosted in-person educational conference in louisville, ky in february 2025.stewardship: signed association management contract with the american alliance of orthopedic executives (aaoe) to assist with organizational management and growth continued developing the leadership of the association by expanding the board and moving away from reliance on founding members.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 71% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- Transfer-based 990-EZ. The 990-EZ reports grants or member benefits, but it does not separate enough spending to show the nonprofit’s full delivery mix.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 2
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 3.3%; rating input score 3
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.5%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.05; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.26; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.7% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 3.3% of revenue deployed
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 3/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.