American Society of Nephrology

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
526078378
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025
Location
Washington, DC, USA
Phone
202-640-4660
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$36,768,596
Expenses
$34,936,831
Assets
$116,864,866
Liabilities
$34,531,114

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

20 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Deidra C Crews MD MS FASN (Past-President)
  • Samir M Parikh MD FASN (President-Elect)
  • Prabir Roy-Chaudhury MD PhD FASN (President)
  • Tod Ibrahim (CEO and Executive Vice President)
  • Mark Lim (Vice President of RDI)

Highest reported compensation

  • Tod Ibrahim (CEO and Executive Vice President): $668,225 total reported compensation
  • Danette C Broughton (Senior VP of Operations): $512,759 total reported compensation
  • Hector Ruiz (Senior VP of Financial Operations): $506,971 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To create a world without kidney diseases, the ASN Alliance for Kidney Health elevates care by educating and informing, driving breakthroughs and innovation, and advocating for policies that create transformative changes in kidney medicine throughout the world.

What it reported doing in 2025

Publications - The Society publishes the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN) (Impact Factor 13.6), the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (CJASN) (Impact Factor 9.8), Kidney360 (Impact Factor 2.7) the Nephrology Self-Assessment Program (nephSAP), and ASN Kidney News. JASN, established in 1990, publishes peer-reviewed basic, clinical and translational original articles relevant to nephrology. CJASN, established in 2006, focuses on advancing the practice of kidney medicine by reporting novel and rigorously reviewed clinical research. Kidney360, launched in 2020, an online only Open Access journal that publishes basic, translational, clinical, epidemiologic, health policy, population science, and global health kidney research, nephSAP provides topic-focused updates on clinical and research advances in nephrology, as well as medical education (CME) credits and maintenance of certification (MOC) points for nephrologists. ASN Kidney News, a news magazine established in 2009, provides kidney professionals and others access to key information in nephrology.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 62% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 88% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 84
  • Transparency & Controls: 84
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 48
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 86.9%; rating input score 87
  • Program expense ratio: 83.3%; rating input score 83
  • Fundraising efficiency: $49.12 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 6 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Pass
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Pass
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • 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: 5%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.35; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.3; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 13.5%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: 86.9% of revenue deployed · 83.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 7 filed program accomplishments · $29.1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $668K · 20 people listed · 6 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $3.9M reported
  • Consistency: 38 of 38 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 12 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 2 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.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 44/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 41/100.