Christian Medical & Dental Associations®
Legal name: Christian Medical & Dental Society
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 362284267
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Bristol, TN, US
- Phone
- 4238441000
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- International Development
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $15,275,466
- Expenses
- $13,627,308
- Assets
- $24,223,272
- Liabilities
- $2,591,721
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
35 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- OMARI A HODGE MD (PRESIDENT)
- CARA BROWN MD (PRESIDENT-ELECT)
- GEORGE GONZALEZ MD (PAST-PRESIDENT)
- MICHAEL E CHUPP MD (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- MICHAEL E CHUPP MD (CEO): $187,422 total reported compensation
- L SCOTT LEDFORD (CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER): $151,588 total reported compensation
- GEORGE COURTNEY (VP FOR STEWARDSHIP DEVELOPMENT): $144,257 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
CMDA educates, encourages, and equips Christian healthcare professionals to glorify God. CMDA's Core Values Dayofprayerfeatured We strive to fulfill our mission by our commitment to be:. We strive to fulfill our mission by our commitment to be: Christ-like Controlled by the Holy Spirit. (While each of us holds fast to additional beliefs important to our relationship with God, the following statement outlines the tenets that provide a foundation for our fellowship and participation in the Christian Medical & Dental Associations®.) I believe: In the divine inspiration and final authority of the Bible as the Word of God;.
What it reported doing in 2024
Public policy -cmda serves as the collective voice of thousands of christian doctors on bioethical and other health care issues. Cmda promotes a christian perspective on ethical issues and provides medically reliable and biblically sound guidance on healthcare issues. Many turn to cmda for help with critical bioethical issues, such as abortion, conscience rights in healthcare, euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide, human trafficking, embryo research, and many others. Cmda experts have testified in congress and have conducted hundreds of media interviews for national outlets. The Washington office serves as a liaison with the white house, congress, and federal agencies. The Washington office provides experts for congressional testimony, legislative counsel, coordinates legal briefs in court cases, and white house consultation; produces commentaries and articles for national media; networks with and assists other pro-life policy organizations; and provides members with updates and analysis on public policy issues. An extensive website offers valuable information on critical issues related to medical ethics and healthcare. The Washington office of the christian medical association links our members with congress, the administration, and policy organizations; presents life-honoring perspectives through the national media; and publishes resources on vital issues.
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 92% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 69
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 64.8%; rating input score 65
- Program expense ratio: 70.5%; rating input score 70
- Fundraising efficiency: $10.87 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.7%; rating input score 95; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Limited
- Conducts field audits: Limited
- May suspend future funding: Limited
- Requires financial reports: Limited
- Conducts site visits: Limited
- Requires grant agreements: Limited
- May require repayment: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 86.8%; rating input score 87; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.8%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.78; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.2% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.5% per year; rating input score 100; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 64.8% of revenue deployed · 70.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 19 of 19 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 6 filed program accomplishments · $9.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $187K · 35 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $206K reported
- Consistency: 44 of 46 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 11 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 11 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 41/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.