Association of Clinical Elbow and Shoulder Surgeons Incorporated
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 453784045
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Arnold, MD, USA
- Phone
- 4102688862
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $191,021
- Expenses
- $181,785
- Assets
- $253,052
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Brian Wolfe MD (President)
- Joseph Abboud MD (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Brian Wolfe MD (President)
- Joseph Abboud MD (Vice President)
- Ian Byram MD (Secretary)
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
Association of Clinical Elbow and Shoulder Surgeons, Inc ("ACESS") promotes the advancement of the shoulder and elbow area by focusing on research, technical advances and best practices of the orthopedic subspecialty. ACESS provides a peer group with whom to share clinical cases, furthers members' education in shoulder and elbow surgery, and facilitates development of a network of shoulder and elbow surgeons for patient care and referral. In addition, ACESS provides a platform for evaluating patient outcomes in multi-centered studies. The group strives to improve the quality of care provided to patients with elbow and shoulder disorders.
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization conducts coordinated research to further the advancement of the shoulder and elbow subspecialty. The group also focuses on the education of the general public and rehabilitation professionals via information provided on the internet regarding shoulder and elbow orthopedic conditions, rehabilitation guidelines on various procedures of the shoulder and elbow.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 65% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 93.4%; rating input score 93
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.8%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.39; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 29.7% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 89% of revenue deployed · 93.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $170K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 44/100.