PaintCare
Legal name: PaintCare Inc C/o American Coatings Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 271354262
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- (855) PAINT09
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Recycling Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $77,136,896
- Expenses
- $86,043,312
- Assets
- $90,715,112
- Liabilities
- $18,245,361
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
22 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Marjaneh Zarrehparvar (President/COO)
- James Andrew Doyle (ACA President & CEO (thru 1/15/26))
- Michael Johnson (ACA President & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Michael Johnson (ACA President & CEO): $1,188,732 total reported compensation
- James Andrew Doyle (ACA President & CEO (thru 1/15/26)): $540,048 total reported compensation
- Marjaneh Zarrehparvar (President/COO): $410,123 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
PaintCare makes it easy to recycle leftover paint. In states with paint stewardship laws, we operate recycling programs on behalf of paint companies.
What it reported doing in 2025
Oregon (OR) Program: The first state in the U.S. with a pilot program which instituted a model, industry supported, paint stewardship program. The program is responsible for environmentally responsible end-of-life management for leftover architectural paint and offers opportunities to relieve local and state governments of the economic burden of post-consumer paint management. PaintCare implemented the pilot paint stewardship program in Oregon in July 2010. Legislation passed in 2013 made the Oregon pilot program into a permanent one.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 97% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 89.2%; rating input score 89
- 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: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- 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; 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: -11.5%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.05; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.2; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.2%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.4% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 13 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 89.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 13 filed program accomplishments · $76.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.2M · 22 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $50.9M reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 3/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 41/100.