National Capital Area Branch of the Assoc for Laboratory Animals
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 546076255
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2012, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Frederick, MD, USA
- Phone
- 7082561019
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $194,959
- Expenses
- $217,205
- Assets
- $166,307
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GEOFF HUNT (PRESIDENT)
- DONNA TIGNOR (PRESIDENT-ELECT)
- ANNE KUSZPIT (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT/CHAIR)
People named in this filing
- GEOFF HUNT (PRESIDENT)
- DONNA TIGNOR (PRESIDENT-ELECT)
- ANNE KUSZPIT (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT/CHAIR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
-sponsor training courses, workshops and seminars-promote exchange of information between persons working in the field of laboratory animals-promote improvements in the humane care and use of laboratory animals-recognize outstanding persons in the field of laboratory animals-provide current information on laboratory animal science to interested members of the general public, news media, or governmental organizations-support other nonprofit organizatins with similar goals
What it reported doing in 2025
Conduct an animal seminar to cover the area of humane care and use of laboratory animals and the advancement of laboratory animal science.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 81% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 90.4%; rating input score 90
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -11.4%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.77; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.9% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.7% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 90.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $196K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.