American Society for Medical Shockwave Treatment
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 331780699
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Springfield, MA, USA
- Phone
- 4138461955
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $154,816
- Expenses
- $181,861
- Assets
- $37,638
- Liabilities
- $64,683
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARC LEDERMAN DPM (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- BRICE BLATZ MD (PRESIDENT)
- ROB MONACO MD (PRESIDENT-ELECT)
- ADAM TENFORDE MD (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JAY SPECTOR DPM (BOARD OF DIRECTORS)
- ELIZABETH BONDI DPM (BOARD OF DIRECTORS)
- JENNIFER SOO HOO MD (BOARD OF DIRECTORS)
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
The american society for medical shockwave treatment (asmst) advances the applications and clinical use of shockwave technology across multiple medical disciplines to improve patient outcomes. The organization devotes approximately 75% of its time to its educational summit, its primary programmatic activity, providing education and research for healthcare professionals. The remaining 25% is devoted to building a multidisciplinary professional community and facilitating networking and ongoing education to support best practices in medical shockwave treatment, furthering its exempt purpose.
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization's primary program service accomplishment in 2025 was the planning and execution of its annual educational summit, which provided multidisciplinary education and research dissemination in medical shockwave treatment. In addition, asmst supported ongoing educational initiatives through the development and distribution of clinical resources and educational materials, and fostered a growing professional community by facilitating collaboration, networking, and the exchange of best practices among healthcare professionals.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 69% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 17
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.1%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 61.4%; rating input score 61
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -17.5%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.21; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.72; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 72.1% of revenue deployed · 61.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $112K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.