Bucks County Medical Society
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 236415655
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
- Phone
- 8668557664
- Rating
- 60
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $134,870
- Expenses
- $91,728
- Assets
- $628,175
- Liabilities
- $40,000
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOHN PAGAN MD (PRESIDENT)
- KATHY TRAN-GAST DO (PRESIDENT-EL)
People named in this filing
- JOHN PAGAN MD (PRESIDENT)
- KATHY TRAN-GAST DO (PRESIDENT-EL)
- GEORGE HEYRICH MD (VICE PRESIDE)
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
The bucks county medical society strives to advance the professional and personal development of its physician members by providing educational and practice related resources as well as legislative advocacy. Moreover, the bucks county medical society seeks to promote optimal outcomes for our patients as well as the public health of the bucks county community. The purposes of the bucks county medical society, a component medical society of the Pennsylvania medical society, shall be to extend medical knowledge and advance medical science; to elevate and maintain the standards of medical education and training; to uphold the ethics and dignity of the medical profession; to establish friendly interchange among physicians and with the general public; and to promote an enlightened public opinion with regard to public health and hygiene, so that the profession shall become more useful to the public in the prevention and management of disease and in prolonging and adding comfort to life.
What it reported doing in 2025
Distributor of informational updates and educational materials important for member awareness related to the ever changing practice environments, medical scholarship donations contributing to the the future of the profession, and liaisons to other stakeholder organizations fostering better patient care.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 60% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 31
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 75
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 22.6%; rating input score 23
- Program expense ratio: 55.4%; rating input score 55
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- 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: 32%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.85; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -6.4% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 22.6% of revenue deployed · 55.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $51K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 18 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 18 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 23/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 55/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.