International Association of Museum Facility Administrators
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 521727721
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2014
- Location
- Bel Air, MD, USA
- Phone
- 4439399393
- Rating
- 54
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hospitals and Related Primary Medical Care Facilities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $407,429
- Expenses
- $242,555
- Assets
- $691,483
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- NANCY BECHTOL (President)
People named in this filing
- NANCY BECHTOL (President)
- ALAN DIRICAN (Treasurer)
- RANDY MURPHY (VP DEVELOPMENT)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
This organization's primary exempt purpose is to develop, promote, and advance the practice, study, and teaching of the highest standards of excellence and quality with regard to the administration of planning, development, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of world class museum facilities in all countries around the world in order to create and foster methods within the international museum community to better serve the missions and goals of all museums and to enhance stewardship of resources and facilities to optimize the provision of services to the public.
What it reported doing in 2025
Educational conferences are held and members are educated on:1. Training and education for museum management2. Security and crowd managementall public museum throughout the world have benefited as a result of these educational conferences.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 78% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 51
- Transparency & Controls: 80
- Accountability: 6
- Sustainability: 77
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 46.1%; rating input score 46
- Program expense ratio: 77.5%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 40.5%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.85; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.2% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 46.1% of revenue deployed · 77.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 9 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $188K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 15 of 16 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 46/100.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.