Association of Public Health Laboratories Inc
501(c)(3) Donations tax-deductible
90% goes to programs $0 to raise $100 Thin reserves Growing revenue
Association of Public Health Laboratories Inc is a 501(c)(3) organization based in Bethesda, Maryland, registered in 1992, with $142,195,492 in FY2024 revenue. CharityIndex grades it B+, and it directs about 90% of spending to programs.
7700 Wisconsin Ave Ste 1000, Bethesda, MD, 20814 EIN 52-1800436 Since 1992
Revenue (FY2024)
$142.2M
▲ 25.6% vs prior year
Expenses (FY2024)
$141.1M
Net assets
$11.2M
Employees
299
CharityIndex rating
One independent A+ to F grade from four published criteria, each scored separately from IRS filings and combined by weight.
B+
★★★★
Rated on 4 of 4 criteria.
Held down by its weakest criterion — a strong score on one criterion can't hide a weak one.
How the rating works →AProgram efficiency40% of the rating90% to programs · $0 to raise $100
Measures how much of every dollar spent actually reaches programs, plus what it costs to raise $100 of donations. The worse of the two measures sets the letter (85%+ to programs is an A; under $15 to raise $100 is an A), averaged over the three most recent filings. For Association of Public Health Laboratories Inc: 90% to programs · $0 to raise $100 earns a A on this criterion. See the exact thresholds →
C+Financial health25% of the rating1 mo reserves · +1% margin
Measures whether the organization is built to last: how many months its reserves would cover expenses (3+ months earns an A-range score, but hoarding 5+ years of budget is capped) and whether it runs a surplus or a deficit. For Association of Public Health Laboratories Inc: 1 mo reserves · +1% margin earns a C+ on this criterion. See the exact thresholds →
A+Governance25% of the rating6 of 6 checks met
Checks how the organization is run, from its own Form 990: an independent board majority, a board of five or more, conflict-of-interest, whistleblower and document-retention policies, and independently audited financials. The share of disclosed checks that pass sets the letter. For Association of Public Health Laboratories Inc: 6 of 6 checks met earns a A+ on this criterion. See the exact thresholds →
A+Transparency10% of the rating5 of 5 disclosure signals
Counts five disclosure signals: a recent filing, a mission statement, program descriptions, a listed website, and the full expense breakdown. More disclosure, better letter. For Association of Public Health Laboratories Inc: 5 of 5 disclosure signals earns a A+ on this criterion. See the exact thresholds →
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Mission
See part iii, line 1.
What they do
Global health:in september 2020, aphl received the global health security partnerships: expanding and improving public health laboratory strategies and systems cooperative agreement for protecting and improving health globally: building and strengthening public health impact, systems, capacity and security. aphl also has a cooperative agreement to support the achievement of the global health security (ghs) targets in kenya that focus on protecting and improving health globally through regional, national, and local partnerships. also, we continue to receive pepfar funding for only select countries: mozambique & ghana. in september of 2023 aphl received the grant for supporting continuous quality improvement, partnerships, and innovation for sustained and responsive laboratory systems, tiered diagnostic networks, and laboratory data management under pepfar. this cooperative agreement is to build upon activities to ensure access to quality-assured conventional and poc hiv-related laboratory and diagnostic services, emphasizing laboratory informatics/data systems and cqi approaches for poc testing sites, laboratories, the clinic-laboratory interface, and across integrated national diagnostic networks.
Other federal awards:the health resources and services administration (hrsa) cooperative agreements to aphl supports the newborn screening technical assistance and evaluation program, a national newborn screening resource center designed to provide data, technical assistance, and training to newborn screening programs and assist states with quality improvement initiatives. it functions with the goal of improving outcomes for newborns by facilitating newborn screening initiatives and programmatic outcomes to improve the overall quality of the newborn screening system.the food and drug administration (fda) cooperative agreements to aphl works to continue building competency-based integrated training for regulatory laboratory scientists, workshops, and educational resources to laboratories seeking iso/iec 17025 accreditation, support fda's genometrakr network, and improve the sharing of food testing data via fda's elexnet platform.
Contact & location
Financial trends
Revenue grew from $37.3M (FY2015) to $142.2M (FY2024) across 10 reported years.
Financial snapshot
Financial health & position (FY2024)
Liabilities $24.9MNet assets $11.2M
Operating margin
0.8%
Revenue exceeded expenses in the latest fiscal year.
Total assets
$36.1M
Total liabilities
$24.9M
Net assets
$11.2M
Salaries & benefits
$39.3M
28% of expenses
Board members
10
10 independent
Financials by year
| Fiscal year | Revenue | Expenses | Net assets | Total assets | Form |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $142,195,492▲25.6% | $141,108,741▲22.7% | $11,206,500▲13.1% | $36,109,618▲22.7% | 990 |
| 2023 | $113,219,928▲11.6% | $114,958,103▲16.0% | $9,904,165▼11.3% | $29,422,327▼6.8% | 990 |
| 2022 | $101,456,057▲12.8% | $99,096,766▲15.2% | $11,171,840▲15.7% | $31,575,838▲43.3% | 990 |
| 2021 | $89,928,640▲42.4% | $86,000,510▲40.8% | $9,652,275▲71.1% | $22,041,513▲40.3% | 990 |
| 2020 | $63,153,613▲12.4% | $61,069,490▲9.6% | $5,642,408▲78.9% | $15,710,719▲48.8% | 990 |
| 2019 | $56,202,172▲15.7% | $55,741,705▲14.0% | $3,153,442▲44.6% | $10,557,880▲12.3% | 990 |
| 2018 | $48,555,241▼3.2% | $48,905,586▼2.9% | $2,180,058▼22.7% | $9,404,124▼19.3% | 990 |
| 2017 | $50,137,614▲25.9% | $50,364,635▲26.5% | $2,821,872▼4.7% | $11,659,368▲2.8% | 990 |
| 2016 | $39,828,220▲6.8% | $39,811,488▲7.5% | $2,962,491▲6.7% | $11,343,961▲8.1% | 990 |
| 2015 | $37,275,000 | $37,049,310▲7.4% | $2,775,993▲10.1% | $10,491,585▲36.5% | 990 |
| 2012 | — | $34,507,675▲12.8% | $2,522,369▲7.0% | $7,685,096▼7.4% | 990 |
| 2011 | — | $30,596,397▼13.5% | $2,356,328▲9.6% | $8,297,579▼1.4% | 990 |
| 2010 | — | $35,391,550▲2.2% | $2,150,665▲25.3% | $8,419,107▲43.9% | 990 |
| 2009 | — | $34,641,382 | $1,716,578 | $5,852,248 | 990 |
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Leadership & compensation (FY2024)
Highest-paid: Scott Becker — $947,908 (0.67% of total expenses)
| Name | Title | Hours/week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scott Becker | Chief Executive Officer | 40 | $947,908 |
| Carol Clark | Chief Operating Officer | 40 | $484,948 |
| Patina Gagne | Dir. Datapult (until 10/2024) | 40 | $317,798 |
| Ewa King | Chief Program Officer | 40 | $286,920 |
| Peter Kyriacopoulos | Chief Policy Officer | 40 | $270,024 |
| Christine Bean | Chief Learning Officer | 40 | $257,740 |
| Lisa Chilcote | Senior Director, People & Culture | 40 | $245,477 |
| Troy Willitt | General Counsel | 40 | $240,169 |
| Imran Babayev | Director, Finance | 40 | $231,374 |
| Michelle Meigs | Director II, Informatics Program | 40 | $229,077 |
| Anthony Tran | Public Health Institutional State | 1 | — |
| Deborah Severson | Public Health Institutional Local | 1 | — |
| Godfred Masinde | Secretary/treasurer | 1 | — |
| Leslie Wolf | Public Health Institutional Local | 1 | — |
| Megan Crumpler | President | 1 | — |
| Michael Pentella | Public Health Institutional State | 1 | — |
| Pamela Higgins | Phai | 1 | — |
| Scott Shone | President-elect | 1 | — |
| Sharon Massingale | Public Health Institutional State | 1 | — |
| Tim Southern | Past President | 1 | — |
Top vendors & contractors (FY2024)
| Contractor | Services | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Ruvos LLC | Informatics Consulting | $13,001,980 |
| J Michael Consulting LLC | Informatics Consulting | $4,819,120 |
| Deloitte Consulting LLP | Informatics Consulting | $4,139,725 |
| Carradora Health Inc | Informatics Consulting | $2,868,754 |
| Hln Consulting LLC | Informatics Consulting | $2,828,581 |
Grants received · $2.8M total
10 grants to Association of Public Health Laboratories Inc totaling $2.8M, reported by foundations on their Schedule I filings.
| Grantmaker | Purpose | Year | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Family Health International | Global health | 2023 | $527,525 |
| Silicon Valley Community Foundation | Health | 2023 | $460,000 |
| Family Health International | Global health | 2022 | $224,439 |
| National Foundation For the Ctrs For Disease Contr & Prevention Inc | Emergency response fund-coronavirus | 2021 | $218,268 |
| National Foundation For the Ctrs For Disease Contr & Prevention Inc | Clinical trials unit for hiv/aids and tb research | 2020 | $320,625 |
| National Foundation For the Ctrs For Disease Contr & Prevention Inc | Covid-19 response | 2019 | $358,020 |
| National Foundation For the Ctrs For Disease Contr & Prevention Inc | Covid-19 response | 2019 | $200,000 |
| Association of State and Territorial Health Officials | Public health platform | 2016 | $101,585 |
| Association of State and Territorial Health Officials | Public health platform | 2015 | $248,873 |
| Association of State and Territorial Health Officials | Public health platform | 2014 | $133,369 |
Grants made · $10.0M in FY2024
21 grants totaling $10.0M in FY2024 — showing the 15 largest. All grants made by Association of Public Health Laboratories Inc →
| Recipient | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| National Foundation For the Ctrs For Disease Contr & Prevention Inc | Public health data strategy (phds) workforce acceleration | $7,839,040 |
| University of Iowa | Aphl is piloting a regional academic institution hub model for recruiting and hosting fellows and interns in public health laboratory science. the goal of this approach is to achieve a sustainable regional model where fellows and interns are placed in public health laboratories as well as in academic laboratories where fellow projects serve a public health function. a position will be funded by aphl at each hub laboratory as part of this pilot. | $878,347 |
| University of South Florida | Leveraging the administrative infrastructure of the university of south florida, the subrecipient, will establish and implement a scholarship program uniquely targeted to drph candidate currently employed in a public health laboratory and accepted into this online drph degree program to obtain their doctoral degree as one prerequisite to lead a moderate or highly complex public health laboratory. further, this effort will contribute to the strengthening of a public health laboratory workforce pipeline and address need for shortages in these leadership positions. | $395,310 |
| Genetic Alliance Inc | The subrecipient will work with the aphl newborn screening (nbs) program to serve as the subject matter expert on family engagement in newborn screening. specifically, the subrecipient will lead all activities pertaining to providing education and training to diverse families and providers and to develop family leaders in national newborn screening | $219,667 |
| Utah State University | Utah state university will use the funds awarded to implement thenewborn hearing screening and dried blood spot newborn screeningquality improvement learning collaborative. the project will includeplanning and holding a kick-off meeting for teams to create plan-do-study-act (pdsa) cycles in order to develop a promising practice guide to beshared with various audiences. | $177,951 |
| Health Research Incorporated Elizabeth Wood | The intern will work primarily in the trace elements laboratory, part of the division of environmental health sciences. the specific project concept is to measure total silver in infant/toddler food products purchased in the albany, ny areas as a proxy for silver nanoparticles. | $109,498 |
| Iconnect Consulting Corp | The virginia newborn screening (nbs) program will increase the number of newborn screening results reported within 7 days of life and reduce the number of samples received with missing or illegible demographic data by 1) partnering with iconnect consulting to implement newly developed electronic messaging solutions at no initial cost to the three or more hospitals serving as beta sites; and by 2) expanding the functionality of the existing dcls web portal (dclsconnect) to facilitate the electronic submission of nbs orders and retrieval of nbs results in order to make electronic data exchange available to smaller, low-volume submitters such as rural community hospitals, midwives and primary care providers. | $78,300 |
| South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control | The subrecipient will implement electronic laboratory reporting (elr) capabilities to be able to report results for all laboratory response network for biological threats (lrn-b) threat agents. | $50,700 |
| Arizona Dept of Health Services | Aphl is piloting a regional academic institution hub model for recruiting and hosting fellows and interns in public health laboratory science. the goal of this approach is to achieve a sustainable regional model where fellows and interns are placed in public health laboratories as well as in academic laboratories where fellow projects serve a public health function. positions will be funded by aphl at each hub laboratory as part of this pilot | $47,272 |
| Regents of the Univ of Mn | To support the operation of the adrenoleukodystrophy (ald) national registry. to partner with state newborn screening programs to provide ald data for the individuals identified by the newborn screening program. the subrecipient will host a multi-day mucopolysaccharidosis newborn screening meeting. | $43,093 |
| University of Puerto Rico | The puerto rico (pr) newborn screening (nbs) program will:(1) validate and implement a second-tier testing for adrenoleukodystrophy (ald) using the newms system to monitor ald in 100% of the population.(2) increase and sustain the percentage of samples reported to follow-up in 3 days or less from theworklist date from 91% to 95% by using the new ms system. | $37,967 |
| State of Michigan - Department of Health & Human Services | The overarching goal of this project is to improve the newborn screening (nbs) prenatal education experience in michigan, so that parents are more active participants in the nbs process. mdhhs will create and implement a new educational checklist during the prenatal period through a partnership with three birthing hospitals with the goal of improving parental knowledge and participation in the nbs and biotrust programs. | $26,558 |
| Utah State University | The subrecipient will implement electronic laboratory reporting (elr) capabilities to be able to report results for all laboratory response network for biological (lrn-b) and chemical (lrn-c) threat agents. the subrecipient will develop and test machine learning classification support algorithms for amino acid and acylcarnitine disorders. | $21,948 |
| The University of Alabama At Birmingham | The university of alabama at birmingham will identify state-specific differences in acute care use and initial and follow-up hematology appointments for children diagnosed with sickle cell disease (scd) through newborn screening (nbs) in four states by using the sickle cell data collection (scdc) program. the program team will also use qualitative methods to explore the experiences within state nbs programs follow-up practices for scd and validate how scdc data can be used to inform continuous quality improvement in nbs follow-up. | $21,652 |
| Childrens Hospital Medical Center | The subrecipient will implement genetic testing as a standard component of newborn screening for hemoglobinopathies for babies with suspected sickle cell anemia (hb ss and sickle beta- zero-thalassemia), sickle-beta-plus-thalassemia, and alpha thalassemia. | $20,143 |
Frequently asked questions
- Is Association of Public Health Laboratories Inc a legitimate nonprofit?
- Yes. Association of Public Health Laboratories Inc is a 501(c)(3) organization registered with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service under EIN 52-1800436, based in Bethesda, Maryland. Donations are tax-deductible.
- What is Association of Public Health Laboratories Inc's EIN?
- Association of Public Health Laboratories Inc's Employer Identification Number (EIN) is 52-1800436.
- How much revenue does Association of Public Health Laboratories Inc report?
- Association of Public Health Laboratories Inc reported $142,195,492 in total revenue on its fiscal year 2024 IRS Form 990 filing.
- How much of Association of Public Health Laboratories Inc's spending goes to programs?
- Association of Public Health Laboratories Inc spends about 90% of its total expenses on programs, based on its latest IRS Form 990.
- What financial grade does Association of Public Health Laboratories Inc have?
- CharityIndex grades Association of Public Health Laboratories Inc B+, based on program efficiency and fundraising cost.
- How much does Association of Public Health Laboratories Inc's highest-paid employee make?
- The highest reported compensation on Association of Public Health Laboratories Inc's latest Form 990 is $947,908, paid to Scott Becker (Chief Executive Officer).
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Data for Association of Public Health Laboratories Inc (EIN 52-1800436) comes from the IRS Business Master File and e-filed Form 990 returns, via CharityIndex. Figures reflect what the organization reported to the IRS for each fiscal year.