American Society of Pain Educators Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 201201654
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2008–2008
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2008
- Location
- Montclair, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 9732335570
- Rating
- 42
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $52,737
- Expenses
- $8,983
- Assets
- $14,112
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2008. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2008. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The American Society of Pain Educators (ASPE) is an organization dedicated to improving pain management through the education and training of healthcare professionals. As the only organization focusing on pain educator training, the Society teaches healthcare professionals to serve as resources to educate their clinical peers, as well as patients, families, and caregivers, on ways to relieve pain by the safest means possible.The mission of the ASPE is to improve the standards of clinical pain practice and to enhance the health and quality of life of pain sufferers by providing educational activities that lead to better pain control.
What it reported doing in 2008
Continuing Education Programs: Credentialing. Development & Maintenence of the certified pain educator credentialing exam. Exam was made available to candidates in 2008. Approximately 60 healthcare professionals were certified in the initial offering of the exam.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 61% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 77% for direct work, and 23% for grants.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 12
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 4.2%; rating input score 4
- Program expense ratio: 24.7%; rating input score 25
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 83%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.57; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 4.2% of revenue deployed · 24.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $2K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 4/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 25/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.