National Association of Towns and Townships
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 522014102
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2023318500
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $214,412
- Expenses
- $213,273
- Assets
- $6,585
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JERRY CRABTREE (VICE PRESIDENT)
- DAVID SANKO (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- LARRY SYVERSON (BOARD MEMBER)
- MIKE KOLES (BOARD MEMBER)
- CHRIS KOETZLE (BOARD MEMBER)
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
To serve as the national spokesman for town and township governments; to conduct research and educational programs designed to foster the delivery of efficient, effective and economical local public services; to act as a liasison between the nations's town and township officials and other levels of government, and to encourage sustained intergovernmental cooperation on matters of mutual interest; and to promote a public understanding of the heritage and future of town and township government, and its role in the federal system.
What it reported doing in 2025
To perform policy research on and prepare educational materials about legislative and regulatory issues confronting small towns. To conduct programs designed to foster delivery of effective local services, encourage intergovernmental cooperation and promote the role of town and township government.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% 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
STRONG - 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.5%; rating input score 99
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- 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: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.5%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.03; rating input score 3; 3rd 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: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -22.9% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 99.5% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $213K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $213K reported
- Consistency: 11 of 11 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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: 4 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.