The Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 042746915
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2016
- Forms available
- Form 990 2010, Form 990-EZ 2016
- Location
- Boston, MA, USA
- Phone
- 6176360966
- Rating
- 58
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Health - General and Rehabilitative N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $26,333
- Expenses
- $65,420
- Assets
- $18,681
- Liabilities
- $11,655
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2016. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- STUART B LEVY MD (PRESIDENT)
- THOMAS F O'BRIEN MD (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- STUART B LEVY MD (PRESIDENT)
- THOMAS F O'BRIEN MD (VICE PRESIDENT)
- ARNOLD G REINHOLD (TREASURER)
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 2016. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The alliance for the prudent use of antibiotics (apua) is a non-profit global public health organization. Apua is the world's foremost organization dedicated to ensuring effective antimicorbial treatment for current and future generations. Based in boston on the tufts university health sciences campus, apua's goal is to strengthen society's defenses against infectious diseases worldwide. With an affiliate network in over 50 countries, our goal is to improve antimicrobial policy and practice through sustained communications at the global, national, and local levels through research, education programs, and advocacy (see www.apua.org).founded in 1981 and recognized as a pioneer in the field, apua's mission is to improve infectious disease treatment and contain drug resistance through promoting appropriate antimicrobial access and improving antibiotic use in both the developing and industrial world.
What it reported doing in 2016
Communications program: apua's ongoing communications program is an essential part of our education, outreach, and advocacy plan. The program includes the creation and dissemination of the clinical newsletter, monthly highlights, website maintenance and development, and updates of the facebook and twitter pages. The website is an essential resource, providing links to fact sheets, publications, and relevant news in the field of antimicrobial resistance. Currently, over 1000 apua subscribers receive direct and up-to-date information on scientific issues, opportunities for grants, clinical exchange, events, trainings, etc... This network reaches over 10,000 infectious disease practitioners and experts throughout apua chapters worldwide.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 94% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 35
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 16
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 45.2%; rating input score 45
- Program expense ratio: 18.2%; rating input score 18
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -148.4%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.29; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.62; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -65.6% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -54.3% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -38.9% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 45.2% of revenue deployed · 18.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $12K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2013 to 2016
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 45/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.