American Balance Society Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
831229422
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2022
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2022
Location
Nashville, TN, USA
Phone
5079938478
Rating
59
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$22,556
Expenses
$2,946
Assets
$31,432

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

People named in this filing

  • JAMIE M BOGLE (DIRECTOR)
  • JULIE A HONAKER (DIRECTOR)
  • OWEN D MURNANE JR (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 2022. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To serve as a professional organization of clinicians, technicians, researchers, students, and other professionals. The society is comprised of members who have an interest in vestibular and balance sciences and the assessment, diagnosis, and management of patients with vertigo, dizziness, and impaired balance. To serve as a multi-disciplinary organization that strives not only to empower health care professionals to make evidence- based, patient-centered decisions in the pursuit of improved clinical care for patients with dizziness, balance, and movement disorders, but to extend and expand our basic science of vestibular anatomy and physiology. To foster the dissemination of knowledge and exchange of information among professionals in both clinical care of patients with dizziness and imbalance and among basic and clinical vestibular/balance researchers.

What it reported doing in 2022

To empower health care professionals to make evidence-based, patient- centered decisions in the pursuit of improved clinical care for patients with dizziness, balance, and movement disorders, and to extend and expand basic knowledge of vestibular anatomy and physiology.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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 comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 43
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 80
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 12.4%; rating input score 12
  • Program expense ratio: 95.1%; rating input score 95

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 86.9%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 10.67; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -149.1% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -27.8% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 90.7% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 12.4% of revenue deployed · 95.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2021 to 2022
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 12/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.