Association for Persons in Supported Employment
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 541470501
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Rockville, MD, USA
- Phone
- 3012790060
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,192,508
- Expenses
- $1,168,576
- Assets
- $687,913
- Liabilities
- $309,371
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Marianne Durrant (President)
- Rob Kimmel (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Julie Christensen (Executive Dir.): $146,681 total reported compensation
- CHRISTA RAINWATER (Dir of Membership): $100,044 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
APSE leads in the advancement of equitable employment for people with disabilities. To accomplish this mission, APSE provides advocacy and education concerning the value of integrated employment, addresses issues to expand the growth and implementation of integrated employment services, improves employment practices so that individuals and communities experience quality employment services with meaningful outcomes, and promotes national, state and local policy development which enhances the social and economic inclusion and empowerment of individuals with disabilities.
What it reported doing in 2024
Implemented medicaid infrastructure grants MIG and alliance for full participation grants AFP to improve the existing employment opportunities for people with disabilities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 94% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 76% for direct work, 16% for grants, and 8% for affiliated organizations.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.1%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 72.6%; rating input score 73
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 2%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.59; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.45; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 21.1%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 27.9% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.9% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 71.1% of revenue deployed · 72.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $147K · 20 people listed
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and related organizations
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.