Association of Women Surgeons

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
232564972
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025
Location
Lexington, KY, USA
Phone
8595513080
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Medical Disciplines

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$771,712
Expenses
$756,099
Assets
$1,537,215
Liabilities
$190,980

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

Leadership & pay

39 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • SIMONE BETCHEN (PRESIDENT)
  • CHANTAL REYNA (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • KANDACE MCGUIRE (PAST PRESIDENT)
  • MARION HENRY (PRESIDENT ELECT)
  • TAWAKALITU OSENI (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)
  • SHARON STEIN TERM ENDED 2025 (PAST PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • SIMONE BETCHEN (PRESIDENT)
  • CHANTAL REYNA (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • HEATHER YEO (TREASURER)

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

To inspire, encourage, and enable women surgeons to realize their professional and personal goals.

What it reported doing in 2025

Membership and other programs: membership includes email newsletters, networking opportunities, mentoring, publication opportunities, access to the aws pocket mentor manual for surgical interns and residents, the aws career center, career development resources, professional development program eligibility, grant eligibility, and other exclusive offers. The organization also engages women in high school through senior surgical leaders to begin an engagement of skills, training, and support to strengthen the pipeline of bringing women to leadership roles in the united states within surgery. The program focuses on engaging women in surgery, training leaders, and preparing senior leaders.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 73% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 89% 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 and some filed totals do not add up.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 71
  • Transparency & Controls: 85
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 49
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 80.5%; rating input score 80
  • Program expense ratio: 79.4%; rating input score 79
  • 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: 96%; rating input score 96; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • 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: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 2%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.03; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 28.9% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 11% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 80.5% of revenue deployed · 79.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 29 of 29 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $601K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 39 people listed
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $281K reported
  • Consistency: 27 of 29 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 4 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.
  • 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.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.