Semiconductor Industry Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 942437024
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2024461700
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $16,107,584
- Expenses
- $15,434,110
- Assets
- $19,577,813
- Liabilities
- $9,610,685
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
28 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOHN NEUFFER (PRESIDENT AND CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- JOHN NEUFFER (PRESIDENT AND CEO): $1,501,250 total reported compensation
- DAVID ISAACS (VP, GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS): $954,524 total reported compensation
- MARY THORNTON (VP, GLOBAL POLICY): $786,597 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The semiconductor industry association (sia) is the voice of the semiconductor industry, one of america's top export industries and a key driver of america's economic strength, national security, and global competitiveness. (continued on schedule o)semiconductors the tiny chips that enable modern technologies have helped give rise to incredible products and services that have transformed our lives and our economy. The semiconductor industry directly employs nearly a quarter of a million people in the u.s. Sia members account for nearly 95 percent of all u.s. Semiconductor industry sales. Through this coalition, sia seeks to strengthen leadership of semiconductor manufacturing, design, and research by working with congress, the administration, and key industry stakeholders to encourage policies that fuel innovation, propel business, and drive international competition.
What it reported doing in 2025
Advocacy - advocacy on behalf of the industry on policy priorities such as trade, tax reform, immigration reform, export controls, research funding, environment, anti-counterfeiting, and intellectual property.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 96% 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: 82
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 33
- 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- 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; 64th 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: Fail
- 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: 4.2%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.27; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.49; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 31.3%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 11.6% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 20 of 20 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.5M · 28 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.9M reported
- Consistency: 13 of 13 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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: Operating margin scored 41/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.