American Association for the Advancement

“One of the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals, aaas has individual members in more than 91 countries around the globe. Membership is open to anyone who shares our goals and belief that science, technology, engineering, and mathematics can help solve many of the challenges the world faces today.”

“Members vote for elected officers each year including the aaas president-elect and elected directors of the aaas board.”

“Aaas' form 990 is prepared by staff in the finance office in consultation with outside tax advisors regarding specific questions or issues. The director of finance, who oversees the compilation of the form, reviews the form in detail with the chief financial officer; this review may include their tax consultants. Once the chief financial officer has signed off, the form 990 is reviewed with the chief executive officer. The form 990 is reviewed by the aaas audit committee, a committee chartered by the board of directors. The committee receives a full copy of the form 990. The review is conducted by aaas staff with the outside tax advisors to answer questions and provide additional detail. Copies of the 990 and the supporting schedules are provided to the full aaas board of directors. The board has an opportunity to review and comment on the form 990 prior to its filing with the irs. The chair of the audit committee includes a report of the 990 in her committee report to the board.”

“Aaas regularly and consistently monitors and enforces compliance with its conflicts of interest policy. Each member of the aaas board of directors and key employee is required to annually disclose any conflicts of interest; this disclosure includes a requirement for continuing disclosure for any conflicts that may arise during the year. For all aaas employees (not just key employees), the aaas employee handbook includes a code of conduct that requires, among other things, that employees disclose conflicts of interest to superior(s) or colleagues as relevant to the situation, to ensure that negative consequences that may be caused by conflicts of interest are minimized or eliminated. This is an ongoing equirement. Should a conflict arise that has not been disclosed, the matter would be dealt with as appropriate to the situation. No such situation arose during 2024.”

“The process for determining executive compensation for the association's chief executive officer includes a market review and analysis by an executive compensation consultant who provides comparability data and a full salary analysis for review by the association's board-appointed compensation committee. The consultant meets with the compensation committee to present their analysis and answers any questions they might have about the information provided. The executive committee consultant also provides a salary/market analysis for other key executives in the organization and provides this analysis to the association's ceo and the board-appointed compensation committee. Positions reviewed also include the association's editor-in-chief, cfo, publisher, chief of staff and chief information officer.”

“The conflict of interest policy is not available to the public. The financial statements, constitution and bylaws are available on aaas's website.”

“Awards 6,533,282. Released from restrictions -14,757,311.”