American Headache Society
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 436058456
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Mount Royal, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 8564230043
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,859,269
- Expenses
- $5,183,010
- Assets
- $9,967,682
- Liabilities
- $2,831,866
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TODD J SCHWEDT MD MSCI FAHS (PRESIDENT)
- MATTHEW S ROBBINS MD FAHS (PRESIDENT-ELECT)
- ANDREW C CHARLES MD FAHS (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)
- HOWARD ROSEN (CEO (TMG))
Highest reported compensation
- RASHMI B HALKER SINGH MD FAHS (SECRETARY): $22,000 total reported compensation
- ANDREW C CHARLES MD FAHS (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT): $7,750 total reported compensation
- MATTHEW S ROBBINS MD FAHS (PRESIDENT-ELECT): $3,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The american headache society (ahs) is a nonprofit professional society of healthcare providers dedicated to the study and treatment of headache and face pain in order to improve the care and lives of people living with headache disorders. In accordance with this mission, ahs promotes the exchange of information and ideas concerning the causes and treatments of headache and related pain disorders; educates physicians, health professionals, and the public; and encourages scientific research.
What it reported doing in 2025
Membership, publications, and research - as a professional membership society of healthcare providers dedicated to the study and treatment of headache and face pain, ahs assesses membership dues. Ahs also receives various royalties and editorial reimbursements under publication agreements, including those for its journal "headache: the journal of head and face pain". The journal is published 10 times year and features original articles on all aspects of head and face pain including communications on clinical and basic research, diagnosis and management, epidemiology, genetics, and pathophysiology of primary and secondary headaches, cranial neuralgias, and pains referred to the head and face.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 84% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 95% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 64.6%; rating input score 65
- Program expense ratio: 75.2%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.5%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.92; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.28; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.7%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 64.6% of revenue deployed · 75.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $3.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $22K · 16 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2.7M reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 9 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.