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AMERICAN PETROLEUM INSTITUTE

EIN 13-0433430 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2024
$252,327,496
Expenses 2024
$255,421,069

As filed

Subsection
06
Classification
2000
Street
200 MASSACHUSETTS AVE NW STE 1100

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

THE MISSION OF AMERICAN PETROLEUM INSTITUTE (API) IS TO PROMOTE SAFETY ACROSS THE INDUSTRY GLOBALLY AND TO INFLUENCE PUBLIC POLICY IN SUPPORT OF A STRONG, VIABLE U.S. OIL AND NATURAL GAS INDUSTRY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

SEE FORM 990, PART III, LINE 1 FOR COMPLETE MISSION STATEMENT

  • ADVOCACY - API SPEAKS FOR THE OIL AND NATURAL GAS INDUSTRY TO THE PUBLIC, CONGRESS, THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH, STATE GOVERNMENTS AND THE MEDIA. API NEGOTIATES WITH REGULATORY AGENCIES, REPRESENTS THE INDUSTRY IN LEGAL PROCEEDINGS, PARTICIPATES IN COALITIONS AND WORKS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH OTHER ASSOCIATIONS TO ACHIEVE OUR MEMBERS' PUBLIC POLICY GOALS.

  • RESEARCH & STATISTICS - API CONDUCTS OR SPONSORS ANALYSIS AND RESEARCH IN SUPPORT OF FREE MARKETS, INFORMS COST-EFFECTIVE REGULATION, AND PROMOTES ECONOMIC GROWTH. WE COLLECT, MAINTAIN AND PUBLISH STATISTICS AND DATA ON ALL ASPECTS OF U.S. INDUSTRY OPERATIONS, INCLUDING SUPPLY AND DEMAND FOR VARIOUS PRODUCTS, IMPORTS AND EXPORTS, DRILLING ACTIVITIES AND COSTS, AND WELL COMPLETIONS. THIS DATA PROVIDES TIMELY INDICATORS OF INDUSTRY TRENDS. API'S WEEKLY STATISTICAL BULLETIN IS THE MOST RECOGNIZED PUBLICATION, WIDELY REPORTED BY THE MEDIA.

  • STANDARDS - SINCE 1924, API HAS LED THE DEVELOPMENT OF MORE THAN 800 PETROLEUM, NATURAL GAS AND PETROCHEMICAL EQUIPMENT AND OPERATING STANDARDS. THESE REFLECT THE INDUSTRY'S COLLECTIVE EXPERTISE AND ACCEPTED GOOD PRACTICES. ADDRESSING EVERYTHING FROM DRILL BITS TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, THEY ADVANCE SAFETY, EFFICIENCY AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY. API STANDARDS ARE RECOGNIZED WORLDWIDE FOR THEIR TECHNICAL RIGOR AND GLOBAL IMPACT, WITH MANY INCORPORATED INTO FEDERAL AND STATE REGULATIONS. DEVELOPED THROUGH A CONSENSUS-DRIVEN PROCESS ACCREDITED BY THE AMERICAN NATIONAL STANDARDS INSTITUTE (ANSI), THEY ARE THE MOST WIDELY CITED STANDARDS BY THE INTERNATIONAL REGULATORY COMMUNITY.

  • CERTIFICATION - EACH DAY, THE OIL AND NATURAL GAS INDUSTRY DEPENDS ON EQUIPMENT TO PRODUCE, REFINE AND DISTRIBUTE ITS PRODUCTS. THE EQUIPMENT USES ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY, ALLOWING THE INDUSTRY TO OPERATE IN AN ENVIRONMENTALLY SAFE AND EFFICIENT MANNER. API'S STANDARDS SUPPORT THAT EFFORT, PROVIDING TECHNICAL GUIDANCE THAT ALIGNS WITH INDUSTRY GOOD PRACTICES, BUT API'S ROLE EXTENDS BEYOND PUBLISHING TECHNICAL DOCUMENTS. THROUGH ITS CERTIFICATION PROGRAMS, API PROVIDES A STRUCTURED, VERIFIABLE WAY FOR COMPANIES TO DEMONSTRATE CONFORMANCE TO THOSE STANDARDSAND TO BUILD CREDIBILITY IN A HIGH-STAKES, HIGHLY SCRUTINIZED INDUSTRY.

  • EVENTS AND TRAINING - API ORGANIZES SEMINARS, WORKSHOPS, CONFERENCES AND SYMPOSIA ON PUBLIC POLICY ISSUES. THROUGH API-U, WE PROVIDE TRAINING MATERIALS TO HELP PEOPLE IN THE OIL AND NATURAL GAS BUSINESS MEET REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS AND INDUSTRY STANDARDS.

  • SAFETY - THE CENTER FOR OFFSHORE SAFETY IS AN INDUSTRY SPONSORED PROGRAM THAT WAS ESTABLISHED TO PROVIDE TOOLS, PEER LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES, GOOD PRACTICES AND SUPPORT FOR COMPANIES OPERATING ON THE U.S. OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF. API'S SYSTEM PROGRAMS SAFETY ASSESSMENTS, INCLUDING THE PROCESS SAFETY SITE ASSESSMENT PROGRAM (PSSAP) AND THE PIPELINE SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (SMS) ASSESSMENT PROGRAM, PROVIDE FOR INDEPENDENT ASSESSMENT BY CREDIBLE, THIRD-PARTY SAFETY EXPERTS OF A REFINERY'S (PSSAP) OR AN OPERATOR'S (PIPELINE SMS) SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS BASED UPON API'S STANDARDS AND RECOMMENDED PRACTICES.

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • MICHAEL J SOMMERS

    PRESIDENT AND CEO

    Total calculated
    $6,153,378
    From this org
    $5,131,620
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $1,021,758
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $2,945,350
    Bonus
    $1,911,000
    Other
    $275,270
    Deferred
    $985,166
    Nontaxable benefits
    $36,592
    Filer's total
    $6,153,378

  • JOHN B HESS

    CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • GRETCHEN H WATKINS

    BOARD MEMBER & CHAIR FIN CMTE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • ORLANDO ALVAREZ

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • ALAN S ARMSTRONG

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • WILLIE CHIANG

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • JOHN J CHRISTMANN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • GREGORY L EBEL

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • SANDY ESSLEMONT

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • W RANDALL FOWLER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • ANN G FOX

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • JACK A FUSCO

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • CHRIS GOLDEN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • MIKE J HENNIGAN

    BOARD MEMBER - LEFT NOV 2024

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • STEPHEN L HIGHTOWER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • VICKI HOLLUB

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • W HERBERT HUNT

    BOARD MEMBER - LEFT APR 2024

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • ROGER HUTSON

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • ROGER JENKINS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • THOMAS E JORDEN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • TRACY W KROHN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • RYAN M LANCE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • MATTHEW LANIGAN

    BOARD MEMBER - LEFT JAN 2024

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • RODERICK D LARSON

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • MARK E LASHIER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

The first 25 listed. 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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $252,327,496
    Expenses
    $255,421,069
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $305,380
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $267,555,487
    Expenses
    $258,316,481
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $229,626
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $239,392,392
    Expenses
    $241,637,261
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $136,780

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
    $228,789,035
    Expenses
    $226,725,567
    Assets (EOY)
    $119,123,451

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $228,789,035
    Expenses
    $226,725,567
    Assets (EOY)
    $119,123,451

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $213,554,716
    Expenses
    $232,451,761
    Assets (EOY)
    $117,715,070

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $238,520,840
    Expenses
    $249,963,292
    Assets (EOY)
    $131,182,605

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $234,349,360
    Expenses
    $242,248,092
    Assets (EOY)
    $142,482,288

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $206,675,804
    Expenses
    $220,843,907
    Assets (EOY)
    $84,629,322

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $229,658,818
    Expenses
    $225,079,822
    Assets (EOY)
    $88,459,067

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $216,253,104
    Expenses
    $250,339,386
    Assets (EOY)
    $83,690,323

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $232,913,029
    Expenses
    $244,275,079
    Assets (EOY)
    $115,144,135

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $225,470,401
    Expenses
    $237,905,360
    Assets (EOY)
    $120,286,655

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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Disregarded entities on its 2024 return

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

Not present in the most recent drop.

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 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.