Association of American Publishers Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 132660200
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2023473375
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $18,941,437
- Expenses
- $9,362,619
- Assets
- $17,075,259
- Liabilities
- $7,136,246
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
32 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARIA PALLANTE (PRESIDENT AND CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- MARIA PALLANTE (PRESIDENT AND CEO): $1,041,775 total reported compensation
- SHELLEY HUSBAND (EVP - GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS): $360,136 total reported compensation
- MARIA LUISA SIMPSON (EVP - GLOBAL POLICY): $318,598 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The aap protects and advances the vitality of the u.s. Publishing industry by (1) advocating for policies that incentivize the lawful publication of nonfiction and fiction books, children's books, research journals, and course materials in a wide array of print and digital formats; and (2) providing industry information services, awards, and programs.
What it reported doing in 2024
Advocacy: the aap represents its member companies in government meetings, litigation, regulatory and legislative proceedings, and in events of the industry and legal community. Its principal areas of focus include copyright law, freedom of expression, and fair and transparent markets.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 68
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 50.6%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.82; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.42; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 32.9%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.9% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.1% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 23 of 23 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $1M · 32 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.4M reported
- Consistency: 12 of 13 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 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.
- 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.