National Association of Scientific Materials Managers
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 720844245
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2021
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 4144163565
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $200,167
- Expenses
- $245,744
- Assets
- $348,142
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ALY HEARN (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ALY HEARN (PRESIDENT)
- AMY HOPKINS (VICE PRESIDE)
- JENNA WEST (SECRETARY)
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
Founded in 1974, naosmm has grown to include 500 members in the scientific industry. Members are from teaching, research, and industrial fields, and are involved in purchasing, receiving, warehousing, distribution, and inventory control of chemicals, pharmaceuticals, glassware and plasticware, instrumentation, and environmental health and safety. Typical positions held by our members include laboratory managers, storeroom managers, teaching lab coordinators, purchasing and/or procurement personnel, and business managers. Naosmm allows the exhcange of ideas, information, contacts, and leads with others who can offer solutions since they understand the challenges professionals in our industry face. We accomplish this goal through several different avenues including an annual conference and trade show, a quarterly publication, the newsline, and the naosmm listserv.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provide a platform for the exchange of information and ideas among members regarding the purchasing, receiving, warehousing, distribution, and inventory control of chemicals and other items used by the scientific community. This is accomplished through email, newsletters and an annual conference and trade show, usually held each summer, with workshops that help keep members abreast of current topics, trends, and issues at the forefront of our industry. Recent workshop topics have included government regulations, handling of hazardous materials, proper waste disposal, inventory control, and laboratory renovations. Personal development programs are also offered. The trade show has approximately 60 vendors, and allows members to meet with vendor representatives and preview new products. The conference benefits all attendees.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 61% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 81
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 93.8%; rating input score 94
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 10th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -22.8%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.42; rating input score 50; 50th 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: 45% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 93.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 387 of 6 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 13 of 14 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Independent members within voting members did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.