Fabricators & Manufacturers Association, International
Legal name: Fabricators & Manufacturers Assoc Intl
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 363117542
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Elgin, IL, United States
- Phone
- 888-394-4362 (toll-free, U.S. and Canada)
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $18,913,312
- Expenses
- $16,393,096
- Assets
- $43,983,031
- Liabilities
- $1,683,468
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
25 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- NATALIE HAEFLIGER (VICE PRESIDENT OF FINANCE)
- EDWARD YOUDELL (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- EDWARD YOUDELL (PRESIDENT & CEO): $429,434 total reported compensation
- MARK HOPER (SENIOR VP OF EXPOSITIONS &): $399,649 total reported compensation
- PATRICK SIMON (VP OF EDUCATION, MEMBERSHIP AND MARKETING): $315,300 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Side by side, we move metal fabrication forward. Valuable training programs. Industry-exclusive networking events. Market-leading publications and trade shows. FMA's resources help our metal and manufacturing professionals thrive. We're where thousands of manufacturing professionals unite — individuals, businesses, students — under a common purpose: grow the metal processing, forming, and fabricating industries.
What it reported doing in 2024
Fma is a partner in the fabtech international exposition, held in orlando in 2024. The show had 735,150 square feet of exhibiting space and 29,741 attendees.fma is a partner in the fabtech mexico exposition, held in may 2024. The show had 161,320 square feet of exhibiting space and 13,708 attendees.fma is a partner in the fabtech canada exposition held in june 2024. The show had 88,450 square feet of exhibiting space and 6,946 of attendees.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 97% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 88% 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. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 60
- Transparency & Controls: 56
- Accountability: 86
- Sustainability: 69
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.3%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 74.8%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 10th 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: Scored; rating input score 0
- 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: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13.3%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.68; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.6%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 63.3% of revenue deployed · 74.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $12.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $429K · 25 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 29 of 30 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 26/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.