National Association of Professional Employer Organizations

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
743117195
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Alexandria, VA, USA
Phone
7038360466
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Community, Neighborhood Development

Reported finances

Revenue
$12,215,810
Expenses
$10,902,277
Assets
$11,197,992
Liabilities
$3,599,201

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

Leadership & pay

35 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CASEY CLARK (PRESIDENT & CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • CASEY CLARK (PRESIDENT & CEO): $706,933 total reported compensation
  • NANCY BENOUDIZ (VP, MEMBERSHIP DEVELOPMENT): $415,860 total reported compensation
  • THOMAS STOHLER (VP, FED GOVT AFFAIRS (THRU AUGUST)): $341,415 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

National association of professional employer organizations (napeo)'s mission is to grow, promote, and support the peo industry.

What it reported doing in 2025

Events and committees: napeo is the primary source of education on peo industry best practices and supports operational excellence in its member companies. In 2025, napeo hosted in-person and virtual events for its members, providing essential and timely education on a variety of topic areas including finance, legal, regulatory, human resources, risk management, sales, marketing, payroll and more. In 2025, napeo hosted 39 webinars/virtual events with a combined total of 3,850 participants registered; additionally, 160 attended napeo's in-person risk management workshop, 196 attended our peo capitol summit, 982 attended our annual conference, 28 attended our nextgen leadership workshop, and a combined total of 221 attended our 6 leadership council forums.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 96% 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: 69
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 42
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 80%; rating input score 80; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • 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: 90.5%; rating input score 90; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 10.8%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.03; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.32; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 23%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 23 of 23 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $707K · 35 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $1.1M reported
  • Consistency: 10 of 12 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 3 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 39/100.