The AIDS Institute Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
650380952
IRS 990 coverage
2013–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Saint Petersburg, FL, USA
Phone
8132585929
Rating
75
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,761,798
Expenses
$2,511,132
Assets
$1,285,704
Liabilities
$455,376

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

15 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Sarah Alexander (President)
  • Dallen Michael Greene (Vice President)
  • Michael Ruppal (Executive Director)

Highest reported compensation

  • Michael Ruppal (Executive Director): $229,589 total reported compensation
  • Rachel Klein (Compensated Employee): $193,538 total reported compensation
  • Michelle Scavnicky (Compensated Employee): $142,150 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 mission of The AIDS Institute is to promote action for social change through public policy, research, advocacy, and education.

What it reported doing in 2024

Florida Comprehensive Planning Network - The AIDS Institute coordinates and supports meeting logistics for the statewide Florida Comprehensive Planning Network (FCPN). HIV community planning is an ongoing, comprehensive planning process intended to help assure that resources, particularly federal HIV prevention and care resources, target populations living with or at risk for HIV infections. The FCPN is a community-based HIV prevention and patient care planning body that collaborates with the Department to develop a comprehensive statewide HIV prevention and care plan. In 2023, TAI added the Florida Viral Hepatitis Network (FVHN) to the activities which includes an annual face-to-face meeting. The purpose of this contract is for The AIDS Institute to assist the Department in supporting the Florida Comprehensive Planning Network (FCPN), committees, and statewide workgroups with the coordination and planning of activities that impact persons living with HIV within the state of Florida. For 2024 and 2025, there were four active workgroups as part of TAIs work with the Florida Department health contract. The workgroups include the Community HIV Advisory Group (CHAG), Florida Mens Health Workgroup (FMW), and the HIV/AIDS Section Medication Formulary Workgroup (HSMFW), and the Statewide Integrated HIV Prevention and Care Plan Workgroup. TAI facilitated an additional meeting above our two planned regular FCPN meetings. The Florida HIV/AIDS Comprehensive Planning Network (FCPN) meeting was a hybrid in-person/virtual formal with nearly 140 FCPN members, Department of Health staff, and community guests participating. The focus of the meeting was to develop further the Florida Statewide Integrated HIV Prevention and Care Plan CY 2022-2026 (Integrated Plan).TAI also provided support for the development and implementation of the monitoring and evaluation plan for the Integrated Plan. TAI also started work on Integrated HIV Prevention and Care Plan CY 2027-2031 (Integrated Plan).The AIDS Institute also provided support for the Florida Comprehensive Planning Network (FCPN) to the following FCPN committees: Membership, Nominations, and Bylaws Committee, Coordination of Efforts Committee, Medication Access Committee, Needs Assessment Committee, and Executive Co-Chairs Committee. Additionally, TAI provides support for the Florida Viral Hepatitis Network (FVHN). TAI also supported ongoing scheduling and/or distribution of multiple correspondences for the Community HIV Advisory Group (CHAG), Florida Mens Health Workgroup (FGMW), Florida Viral Hepatitis Network (FVHN), and the HIV Section Medication Formulary Workgroup (HSMFW). Services performed by The AIDS Institute for this program include: administrative support services to FCPN, Committees, and Statewide Workgroups. Other services included, but were not limited to: preparation, planning, and logistics for convening meetings; as well as related activities, conference calls, community training and education; communication; technical assistance; and records management. In addition, TAI coordinated communication such as scheduling, promoting, inviting, sending participation notices, agendas, record management of meetings and conference calls for workgroups, planning, and advisory groups, and recording and distributing summaries of FCPN, FVHN, and FCPN-related committees, and workgroup meetings. Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) - Hillsborough County: The AIDS Institute (TAI), serving as the Center for Systems Integration and Coordination (C-SIC), plays a pivotal role in the implementation of teh Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)-funded Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) initiative in the Hillsborough and Pinellas County jurisdictions. As the coordinating backbone organization, TAI facilitiates collaboration among subrecipients, government agencies, community partners, and people with HIV (PWH). It supports strategic planning, ensures stakeholder engagement, and fosters alignment across o

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 64% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 92% 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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 79
  • Transparency & Controls: 62
  • Accountability: 89
  • Sustainability: 38
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 85.9%; rating input score 86
  • Program expense ratio: 94.5%; rating input score 94
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 84.6%; rating input score 85; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 61.5%; rating input score 61; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 90%; rating input score 90; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 9.1%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.51; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.35; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 38.6%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 11.2% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 85.9% of revenue deployed · 94.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 9 of 10 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $2.4M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $230K · 15 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 21 of 23 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 22 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 16 filed related-organization links
  • 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.