IAS

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
274313833
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2010
Location
Washington, DC, USA
Phone
4438070412
Rating
61
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Support N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,235,346
Expenses
$1,006,859
Assets
$8,293,439
Liabilities
$6,368,639

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CHRIS BEYRER MD MPH (PRESIDENT)
  • MITCHELL WARREN (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • BIRGIT PONIATOWSKI (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • BIRGIT PONIATOWSKI (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $297,616 total reported compensation
  • EMMANUEL FLAMAND (SECRETARY): $217,012 total reported compensation
  • CAROLE BEILEAU (TREASURER): $187,214 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To provide critical platforms for presenting new research, sharing best practices and advancing the fight against AIDS and promoting dialogue, education and networking to help close gaps in knowledge and expertise at every level of the response to AIDS.

What it reported doing in 2025

Ias 2025, the 13th international AIDS society conference on HIV science, took place in kigali, rwanda, and virtually from 13 to 17 july 2025. Despite challenges created by sudden funding cuts, almost 4,000 people came together in kigali and virtually, showing the resilience that defines the HIV response and a commitment to protecting gains made in over 40 years of this pandemic. Ias 2025 provided a forum for participants to review the early impact of us funding cuts and debate how the HIV response can adapt to shrinking donor support. Scientific innovation in prevention was also at the forefront during ias 2025, with the release of new world health organization (who) guidelines recommending the use of long-acting injectable lenacapavir as a pre-exposure prophylaxis (prep) option and the presentation of promising data on the experimental monthly prep agent, mk-8527. Ias 2025 showcased the central role of african science in shaping the global HIV response. The conference also highlighted the host country's achievement in reaching the 95-95-95 targets for HIV diagnosis, treatment and viral suppression and its success in tackling a marburg virus outbreak in 2024. A total of 5,257 abstracts were submitted to ias 2025, and 2,016 were accepted, an acceptance rate of 38%. The conference featured 31 oral abstract sessions in five tracks and 30 invited-speaker sessions, including three plenaries, 22 symposia and two special sessions. Alongside these conference sessions, 36 satellites and seven pre-conferences offered delegates focused insights into a wide variety of topics.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 76% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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 program spending has grown recently. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 76
  • Transparency & Controls: 44
  • Accountability: 49
  • Sustainability: 60
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 81.2%; rating input score 81
  • Program expense ratio: 93.4%; rating input score 93
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Scored; rating input score 0
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 60%; rating input score 60; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • 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: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 18.5%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 8.24; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.77; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: Limited

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 15.1% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 81.2% of revenue deployed · 93.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 3 of 5 board members independent · 3 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $940K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $298K · 6 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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.
  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 9 not reported.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.