American College of Sports Medicine Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 311096390
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2022
- Location
- Indianapolis, IN, USA
- Phone
- 3176379200
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $268,141
- Expenses
- $163,426
- Assets
- $3,915,871
- Liabilities
- $86,000
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
25 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARK HUTCHINSON (PRESIDENT)
- WALTER THOMPSON (VICE PRESIDENT)
- MARY FELTMAN (CEO & SECRETARY)
- KRISTIN BELLESON (CEO & SECRETARY - PAST)
Highest reported compensation
- KRISTIN BELLESON (CEO & SECRETARY - PAST): $243,562 total reported compensation
- MARY FELTMAN (CEO & SECRETARY): $237,449 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide research grants to further advances in sports medicine and exercise science. To raise funding for the work of the american college of sports medicine.
What it reported doing in 2024
Research grants and funding for programs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 96% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 56
- Accountability: 86
- Sustainability: 76
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 65.8%; rating input score 66
- Program expense ratio: 72.2%; rating input score 72
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Limited
- Conducts field audits: Limited
- May suspend future funding: Limited
- Requires financial reports: Limited
- Conducts site visits: Limited
- Requires grant agreements: Limited
- May require repayment: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 81.7%; rating input score 82; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 39.1%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 23.96; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 18%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -10% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -10.6% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.9% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 65.8% of revenue deployed · 72.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 16 of 17 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $118K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $244K · 25 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 18 of 20 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 7 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 39/100.