Association of Applied Paleontological Sciences
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 721620426
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Albuquerque, NM, USA
- Phone
- 5208202107
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $40,067
- Expenses
- $63,060
- Assets
- $120,485
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Andre LuJan (President)
- Geoffrey Notkin (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- George Winters (Executive Dir.)
- Andre LuJan (President)
- Walter Stein (Director)
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
To create an association of professional fossil dealers, collectors, enthusiasts, and academic paleontologists, promoting ethical collecting practices and cooperative liaisons with researchers, instructors, curators and exhibit managers in the paleontological academic and museum community.
What it reported doing in 2025
Reviewing and editing both scientific and technical Paleontology related papers. Publishing the peer-reviewed submissions on our on-line journal AAPS-Journal.orgProviding a number of grant and scholarships to students and academic paleontologists who qualify and meet the approval of the AAPS board of directors, and the membership. Educating academic and commercial paleontologists, students and the general public regarding the International, State and local laws pertaining to the collection, preparation and storage of important fossil specimens
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 91% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.9%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 60.9%; rating input score 61
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -57.4%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.91; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 32.7%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.5% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.2% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 95.9% of revenue deployed · 60.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $38K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.