Chicago Metropolitan Trauma Society
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 363522061
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2017
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2017
- Location
- Oak Lawn, IL, USA
- Phone
- 9085107798
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Specifically Named Diseases
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,004
- Expenses
- $3,043
- Assets
- $15,078
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- EDUARDO SMITH (President)
People named in this filing
- EDUARDO SMITH (President)
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 2017. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Chicago Metropolitan Trauma Society (CMTS) is an organization composed of providers of trauma care from each of the largest Chicagos adult and pediatric Level 1 Trauma Centers. The goal of CMTS is to provide a forum for the exchange of knowledge pertaining to the management of trauma, surgical critical care, and emergency general surgery patients. Our members include attending surgeons, emergency medicine physicians, surgery residents, emergency medicine residents, and trauma/critical care nurses. All of the activities performed by CMTS are performed by members of the CMTS committees.Educational Meetings (85%): a) To accomplish our goal of facilitating exchange of knowledge between our member institutions we host meetings that are open to all members and their guests who participate in the care of Chicagos trauma patients. These meetings begin with a featured speaker discussing a critical care or emergency general surgery topic. Next, one to two trauma cases from one of our local Le
What it reported doing in 2017
The Chicago Metropolitan Trauma Society (CMTS) is an organization composed of providers of trauma care from each of the largest Chicagos adult and pediatric Level 1 Trauma Centers. The goal of CMTS is to provide a forum for the exchange of knowledge pertaining to the management of trauma, surgical critical care, and emergency general surgery patients. Our members include attending surgeons, emergency medicine physicians, surgery residents, emergency medicine residents, and trauma/critical care nurses. All of the activities performed by CMTS are performed by members of the CMTS committees.Educational Meetings (85%): a) To accomplish our goal of facilitating exchange of knowledge between our member institutions we host meetings that are open to all members and their guests who participate in the care of Chicagos trauma patients. These meetings begin with a featured speaker discussing a critical care or emergency general surgery topic. Next, one to two trauma cases from one of our local Level 1 Trauma Centers are presented. The discussions encompass all aspects of the patients care, including the primary survey, diagnostic work-up, surgical decision-making, and post-operative management. These presentations are designed to be interactive and are geared towards all audience members, regardless of specialty or level of training. Additionally, these meetings provide Continuing Medical Education (CME) opportunities for participants. b) Monthly meetings are held in January, February, March, April, May, September, October, November and December.c) Meeting locations vary based on convenience for attendees and availability of venue. Experts from CMTS committees direct the topic and discussion.Community Activities (15%)a) CTMS collaborates with the American College of Trauma to provide community reach-out opportunities providing resources such as bleeding control, advanced topics in trauma care, clinical process, and approaches to treatment of critically ill or injured patients.b) Community activities will be scheduled based on need resulting from contact and discussion with area trauma leaders at the above-mentioned meetings.c) Meeting locations vary based on convenience for attendees and availability of venue. Experts from CMTS committees direct the topic and discussion.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.3%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.95; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.