Aphl
Legal name: Association of Public Health Laboratories Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 521800436
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Bethesda, MD, USA
- Phone
- 2404852745
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $142,195,492
- Expenses
- $141,108,741
- Assets
- $36,109,618
- Liabilities
- $24,903,118
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MEGAN CRUMPLER (PRESIDENT)
- TIM SOUTHERN (PAST PRESIDENT)
- SCOTT SHONE (PRESIDENT-ELECT)
- SCOTT BECKER (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- SCOTT BECKER (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $1,058,150 total reported compensation
- CAROL CLARK (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $558,937 total reported compensation
- PATINA GAGNE (DIR. DATAPULT (UNTIL 10/2024)): $368,070 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To shape national and global health outcomes by promoting the value and contributions of public health laboratories and continuously improving public health laboratory systems and practices. APHL is the national association representing state and local laboratories in the United States that serve the public’s health by monitoring and detecting health threats to protect Americans. Our core members are laboratories— public health, environmental, agricultural science, chemical and food safety laboratories—known collectively as “public health laboratories.” Our network includes over 130 member laboratories, 50 corporate partner organizations and 1,600 individuals. Representatives from federal agencies, nonprofit organizations, corporations and interested individuals also participate in the association. Our Scope In addition to our work in the United States, we support global health.
What it reported doing in 2024
Global health: in september 2020, aphl received the global health security partnerships: expanding and improving public health laboratory strategies and systems cooperative agreement for protecting and improving health globally: building and strengthening public health impact, systems, capacity and security. Aphl also has a cooperative agreement to support the achievement of the global health security (ghs) targets in kenya that focus on protecting and improving health globally through regional, national, and local partnerships. Also, we continue to receive pepfar funding for only select countries: mozambique & ghana. In september of 2023 aphl received the grant for supporting continuous quality improvement, partnerships, and innovation for sustained and responsive laboratory systems, tiered diagnostic networks, and laboratory data management under pepfar. This cooperative agreement is to build upon activities to ensure access to quality-assured conventional and poc HIV-related laboratory and diagnostic services, emphasizing laboratory informatics/data systems and cqi approaches for poc testing sites, laboratories, the clinic-laboratory interface, and across integrated national diagnostic networks.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 94% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 84% 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.4%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 90%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Limited
- Conducts field audits: Limited
- May suspend future funding: Limited
- Requires financial reports: Limited
- Conducts site visits: Limited
- Requires grant agreements: Limited
- May require repayment: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th 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; 77th 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: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.8%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.26; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.69; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.9%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.6% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.3% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 8 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 89.4% of revenue deployed · 90% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 7 filed program accomplishments · $127M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.1M · 20 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $27.7M reported
- Consistency: 40 of 40 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 31 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 20 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 39/100.