American Society of Anesthesiologists
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 362181944
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Schaumburg, IL, United States
- Phone
- (847) 825-5586
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $58,537,427
- Expenses
- $52,718,298
- Assets
- $114,676,531
- Liabilities
- $33,193,908
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
98 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DONALD ARNOLD (PRESIDENT)
- PATRICK GIAM (PRESIDENT ELECT)
- RONALD HARTER (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)
- BRIAN REILLY (CEO)
- PAUL POMERANTZ (CEO (THRU JAN 2024))
Highest reported compensation
- BRIAN REILLY (CEO): $734,658 total reported compensation
- MANUEL BONILLA (CHIEF ADVOCACY & PRACTICE OFFICER): $494,633 total reported compensation
- PAUL POMERANTZ (CEO (THRU JAN 2024)): $448,025 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Advancing the practice and securing the future of anesthesiology.
What it reported doing in 2024
Continuing education - asa sponsors continuing medical education via online courses, tangible products, and live meetings that are designed to advance physician anesthesiologists' current knowledge and build skills on newest clinical developments, technology advancements, and research. Self study courses include two based on a question and answer format: anesthesiology continuing education (ace), and the self-education and evaluation (see), that are used to assess professional knowledge and prepare for maintenance of certification and licensure. Other self-study courses include a journal cme program using articles from "anesthesiology, refresher courses in anesthesiology" an expansion of annual meeting courses, patient safety, ethics, and a variety of e-learning programs on clinical topics. Asa education programs include an annual meeting, the world's largest education program for physician anesthesiologists, offering a variety of sessions and workshops that cover the current topics and emerging science. The 2024 annual meeting number of attendees was as follows: members 8,492non-members 809exhibitors 2,002guest/spouse 1,036other 351for a total of 12,690 attendeesother annual programs include conference on practice management, anesthesia quality meeting, legislative conference, and the certificate in business administration.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 94% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 97
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: 94.5%; rating input score 95; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 95.4%; rating input score 95; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.9%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.18; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.29; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.4%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 62 of 65 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $735K · 98 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $5.1M reported
- Consistency: 15 of 16 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 100 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 29 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 57/100.