Plastics Industry Association
Legal name: Plastics Industry Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 131325282
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2029745200
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $58,590,729
- Expenses
- $37,515,679
- Assets
- $39,595,928
- Liabilities
- $18,033,566
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
39 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MATTHEW SEAHOLM (PRESIDENT & CEO)
- STEPHANIE STRATEGOS POLIS (VICE PRESIDENT, COMMUNICATIONS)
- ASHLEY HOOD-MORLEY (VICE PRESIDENT, INDUSTRY ENGAGEMENT)
- PATRICK KRIEGER (VICE PRESIDENT, SUSTAINABILITY)
Highest reported compensation
- MATTHEW SEAHOLM (PRESIDENT & CEO): $619,419 total reported compensation
- GLENN ANDERSON (COO): $417,284 total reported compensation
- WAYNE POPHAM (CFO): $360,422 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The plastics industry association (plastics) is a purpose-driven organization that supports the entire plastic supply chain. We believe in working to make our members and the industry more globally competitive, advancing sustainability and being a good steward of resources, innovating and improving to make a difference in the world, creating connections that empower our collective voice, promoting plastics manufacturing and driving business growth. Since 1937, we've been providing education and advocacy to our members. Our global trade show, npe: the plastics show, is held every three years and generates a surplus. This surplus funds deficit budgets in the off years. Npe: the plastics show provides a global platform for industry knowledge and technological innovation to transform the advancements of tomorrow.
What it reported doing in 2024
Execution of advocacy efforts on behalf of the plastics industry, representing one million workers in the united states, to advance policies in support of recycling and sustainability initiatives, a more globally competitive economy, and effective, fair regulations, standards and policies. The promotion of expansive programming in policy, regulatory and legislative arenas to enhance the public awareness of industry science and investments surrounding recycling, sustainability, circularity. Message amplification and education of the facts and research available to enhance and inform those involved in the legislative process as to the advantages, safety, energy capabilities and emission reduction and environmental preference that occurs through the use of plastics.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 95% 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: 83
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 36%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.06; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.46; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.3%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.9% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 31 of 31 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $619K · 39 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $3.4M reported
- Consistency: 12 of 12 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 40/100.