American Trauma Society Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237173936
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025
- Location
- Falls Church, VA, USA
- Phone
- 7035383544
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,945,514
- Expenses
- $1,917,390
- Assets
- $3,150,466
- Liabilities
- $445,313
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
28 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Glen Tinkoff (Director/President)
- Sue Prentiss (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Pete Anziano (Director)
- Krista Brands (Director Ex Officio)
- Jes Cofran (Director Ex Officio)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
ATS is dedicated to creating a world without preventable injury, yet when injury does occur, helping the survivors thrive. It is the key national organization committed to supporting and empowering survivors of trauma, educating and supporting members of the trauma care team and decreasing death and disability through injury prevention.
What it reported doing in 2025
ATS provides continuing educational courses and webinars for trauma registrars related to trauma reporting and data management. ATS is the only organization to provide a national certification process for trauma registrars (CSTR - Certified Specialist in Trauma Registries). Our registry faculty writes the CSTR exam and coordinates its administration through a certification company. ATS provides courses for trauma program managers focused on their individual roles in a trauma center. ATS provides educational courses for injury prevention professionals and partners with other major professional organizations in a Trauma Prevention Coalition.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 77
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.5%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 83.9%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.4%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.64; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.7% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.6% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.5% of revenue deployed · 83.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 23 of 23 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 28 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 27 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.