Meeting Professionals International Potomac Chapter
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 311033028
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025
- Location
- Gaithersburg, MD, USA
- Phone
- 2024225186
- Rating
- 33
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $178,500
- Expenses
- $168,828
- Assets
- $167,365
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- EVAN NIELSON (PRESIDENT)
- CHERI FAIRCHILD (IMMEDIATE PRESIDENT)
- ROBIN TROUTMAN (VICE PRESIDENT)
- DEREK SUMINSKI (VICE PRESIDENT)
- TANIA KASONGO (VICE PRESIDENT)
- YOKO HEUKELS (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- IAN BRICKEY (DIRECTOR)
- PAM DONNELLY (DIRECTOR)
- MELISSA EARDLEY (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The primary exempt purpose of the organization is to provide education to its members regarding the meeting planning industry
What it reported doing in 2025
Meetings: organization members may attend monthly or the annual meetings which provides education regarding the industry and current trends.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 74% 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
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 6
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 6
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 6.7%; rating input score 7
- Program expense ratio: 7.2%; rating input score 7
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: Limited
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.4%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.99; rating input score 41; 41st 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: -26.6% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -8.1% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -10.4% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 6.7% of revenue deployed · 7.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $12K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 15 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $144K reported
- Consistency: 18 of 18 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 7/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 48/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.