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NATIONAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION

EIN 23-7402557 LEXINGTON, KY

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Revenue 2024
$5,036,691
Expenses 2024
$4,575,371

Program services were 91.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
1776 AVENUE OF THE STATES

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

NEMA is the professional association of emergency management directors from all 50 states, 8 territories and DC. We provide national leadership and expertise in comprehensive emergency management; serve as a vital emergency management information and assistance resource; and advance continuous improvement. NEMA is the source of information, support and expertise for those who prepare for, mitigate, respond to, recover from and provide products and services for all emergencies, disasters and threats to the nation's security. Our focus is to 1. Strengthen the relationship with Congress and federal agencies; 2. Develop strategic partnerships; 3. Tackle emergency management issues; 4. Hold two national conferences annually; 5. Serve as an information-sharing and support network for state directors and senior staff; and 6. Offer professional development and training.

Activities or mission (Part I)

NEMA is the professional association of emergency management directors from all 50 states, 8 territories and DC. We provide national leadership and expertise in comprehensive emergency management; serve as a vital emergency management information and assistance resource; and advance continuous improvement. NEMA is the source of information, support and expertise for those who prepare for, mitigate, respond to, recover from and provide products and services for all emergencies, disasters and threats to the nation's security. Our focus is to 1.Strengthen the relationship with Congress and federal agencies; 2.Develop strategic partnerships; 3 .Tackle emergency management issues; 4.Hold two national conferences annually; 5.Serve as an information-sharing and support network for state directors and senior staff; and 6.Offer professional development and training.

  • Conferences - Each year NEMA holds two national conferences to provide a forum to discuss national and regional emergency management strategies with other emergency management professionals from around the country and with experts in the field. The conferences focus on policy development, emergency management concerns, legislative issues and federal relations. They give attendees the opportunity to hear, first-hand, the latest on issues that impact their agencies' programs.

    Expenses $969,614 · Revenue $1,489,525

  • Policies and programs to track, analyze and share information on national policies and programs that impact state emergency management agencies; upon request from Federal government, provide comments and feedback from the state emergency management community; relationship building with other non-governmental organizations.

    Expenses $539,702

  • Grant projects to enhance national all hazards preparedness and improve national response capabilities were conducted through funds provided through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security/Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Centers for Disease Control.

    Expenses $2,662,544 · Revenue $2,657,911

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • AJ Gary

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Marc Pappas

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Robert Ezelle

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Dawn Brantley

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Lynn Budd

    Past President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Robert Buxton

    Regional VP

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Peter Cichetti

    Regional VP

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Russ Strickland

    Regional VP

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Jeff Smitherman

    Regional VP

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Greg Engle

    Regional VP

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Annie Vest

    Regional VP

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Jim Remillard

    Regional VP

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Delila Bruno

    Regional VP

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Brett Compston

    Regional VP

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Bryan Fisher

    Regional VP

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $5,036,691
    Expenses
    $4,575,371
    Contributions
    $1,397,027
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,648,497
    Expenses
    $4,214,669
    Contributions
    $1,407,607
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,867,831
    Expenses
    $3,512,785
    Contributions
    $981,229
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,401,630
    Expenses
    $3,056,565
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,813,731
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,882,198
    Expenses
    $2,626,318
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,342,036
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,141,922
    Expenses
    $3,049,678
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,008,705
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,231,218
    Expenses
    $3,053,332
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,901,011
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,730,783
    Expenses
    $3,551,057
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,733,610
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,879,231
    Expenses
    $3,756,374
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,629,812
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,076,112
    Expenses
    $3,058,481
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,500,774
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,189,325
    Expenses
    $4,063,743
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,405,200
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,154,794
    Expenses
    $3,159,881
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,269,902
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $926,219
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,347,753

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.