Clinical and Patient Educators Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 272280465
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2012
- Location
- Denver, CO, USA
- Phone
- 3039534580
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $432,034
- Expenses
- $407,796
- Assets
- $186,011
- Liabilities
- $15,276
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- THOMAS RAMETTA (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- THOMAS RAMETTA (PRESIDENT): $1,538,375 total reported compensation
- ALEXANDRA SCHAFFRATH (TREASURER): $863,987 total reported compensation
- NICOLE M ANZUONI (SECRETARY): $822,271 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
See schedule o
What it reported doing in 2024
Other program expenses that are not specifically associated with program service accomplishments: expenses including information technology, accreditation, and membership fees.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 88% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 64
- Accountability: 86
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.9%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 99.5%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.6%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.46; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 19.4%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.7% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 93.9% of revenue deployed · 99.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 11 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $406K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.5M · 14 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $279K reported
- Consistency: 15 of 16 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.