National Apartment Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 530191129
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Arlington, VA, USA
- Phone
- 1-833-86-MYNAA
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $67,857,026
- Expenses
- $64,301,606
- Assets
- $55,687,152
- Liabilities
- $32,765,876
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
44 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KELLI LEA (NAAEI PRESIDENT)
- ROBERT PINNEGAR CAE (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- ROBERT PINNEGAR CAE (PRESIDENT & CEO): $853,923 total reported compensation
- AMY GROFF CPM (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $459,351 total reported compensation
- GREGORY BROWN (SVP, GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS): $441,952 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The National Apartment Association serves as the leading voice and resource for the rental housing industry, advocating for policies that support housing affordability and operational excellence while providing education, research, and tools to its members.
What it reported doing in 2025
National lease program the naa click & lease is a web-based leasing program. This leasing program allows an apartment community to save time and money by speeding up the preparation and printing of legal documents. In addition to providing greater efficiency to the onsite leasing process, prospective residents may fill out a rental application online and property managers may audit and edit entire portfolios of leases with a few mouse clicks.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 95% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 65th 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: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.2%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.87; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.59; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.9%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 10 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 29 of 29 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $854K · 44 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $5.9M reported
- Consistency: 13 of 13 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 16 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 4 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.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.