Association for the Advancement of Artificial Inte
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 942702216
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2023604062
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Computer Science
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,074,737
- Expenses
- $4,386,058
- Assets
- $21,425,841
- Liabilities
- $3,113,563
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Meredith Ellison (Executive Director)
- Francesca Rossi (Past President)
- Stephen Smith (President)
- Michael Wooldridge (President Elect)
Highest reported compensation
- Meredith Ellison (Executive Director): $225,120 total reported compensation
- Chesley Grove (Director of Operations): $119,964 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Scientific Society - See Schedule O.
What it reported doing in 2024
Membership in AAAI helps support ongoing efforts to encourage and facilitate research, education, and development in the artificial intelligence field, including our most recent open access initiative. 7,770 total members as of December 31, 2024 which is a slight increase compared to December 31, 2023 (6,422).
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 90% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 92% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 61
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68.3%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 87.1%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Limited
- Conducts field audits: Limited
- May suspend future funding: Limited
- Requires financial reports: Pass
- Conducts site visits: Limited
- Requires grant agreements: Limited
- May require repayment: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 90.4%; rating input score 90; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13.6%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.88; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.9%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.4% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 68.3% of revenue deployed · 87.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 16 of 16 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $3.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $225K · 18 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 33 of 35 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Whistleblower policy not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 37/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 51/100.