Academy for Professionalism in Health Care

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
460898862
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2017–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2016
Location
Scranton, PA, USA
Phone
3109368451
Rating
51
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Public Health Program (Includes General Health and Wellness Promotion Services)

Reported finances

Revenue
$87,773
Expenses
$88,306
Assets
$154,182
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Michelle Schmude EdD MBA (President)
  • Dennis H Novack MD (Past President)
  • Tanja Adonizio MD (President Elect)

People named in this filing

  • Alice Fornari EdD FAMEE RDN HEC (Director)
  • Anita Chopra MD FACP (Director)
  • Carlos S Smith DDS MDiv (Director)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Optimizing patient care through professionalism education, scholarship, policy, and practice in all health-related fields.

What it reported doing in 2025

To promote collaborative, multidisciplinary dialogue and research among professionalism educators. Members of the Academy are expected to engage in, individually or collectively the following activities: exploring intellectual questions pertaining to professionalism in health care, collecting, cataloging and distributing the broad spectrum of model curricula and other teaching materials in medical ethics and humanities toward professionalism developing educational syllabi, evaluation and assessment tools, methods, and strategies and assembling during annual and other APHC-sponsored meetings to promote collaboration, dialogue and research.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 66% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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 and revenue has grown recently. 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: 26
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 52
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 26.5%; rating input score 26
  • Program expense ratio: 26.3%; rating input score 26

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -0.6%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.75; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -8.7% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 21.6% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 26.5% of revenue deployed · 26.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $23K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 to 2025
  • 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 26/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 26/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.