Coalition for National Trauma Research

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
320170279
IRS 990 coverage
2019–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2007
Location
San Antonio, TX, USA
Phone
2104558038
Rating
66
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,524,205
Expenses
$2,002,228
Assets
$1,040,559
Liabilities
$367,094

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

14 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Michelle Price (Executive Director)

Highest reported compensation

  • Michelle Price (Executive Director): $230,112 total reported compensation
  • Pamela Bixby (Deputy Director): $201,308 total reported compensation
  • Monica Phillips (Sr Program Manager): $197,507 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To enhance trauma research in the U.S. by advocating for sustainable research funding commensurate with the burden of disease; coordinate research efforts across professional organizations that span the continuum of injury care; and strengthen the infrastructure for multicenter investigation.

What it reported doing in 2024

PCORI VTE- The primary objective of the project is to help nurses and patients make informed decisions regarding VTE prevention and reduce the occurrence of blood clots in injured patients by 1) implementing a validated nurse education module, and patient-centered education tool at 9 trauma centers, 2) examining data on missed and refused doses of VTE prophylaxis and study the intervention's impact on VTE outcomes in trauma patients at high-risk for VTE events, 3) conducting a qualitative study to tailor the intervention to the different health care settings and computer systems so that it can be implemented nationally, and 4) conducting a Cost of Implementation analysis with input from all nine sites to inform the business case for adopting the intervention at trauma centers across the US by quantifying the implementation costs including staffing efforts (nurse training, bedside patient education interventions) and electronic health record (EHR) configuration in two major platforms (Epic and Cerner). Following training of more than 1,000 nurses and nurse peer coaching, a real-time missed dose alert was put into place at all sites, and the patient education program was activated. Nine sites collected trauma registry and missed dose data for trauma admissions from January 1, 2019-December 31, 2023. A CNTR webpage was continuously utilized as a repository for all study educational materials. Manuscripts were produced and submitted for publication.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 79% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 70% for direct work, and 30% for grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 59
  • Transparency & Controls: 70
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 45
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 61%; rating input score 61
  • Program expense ratio: 76.4%; rating input score 76
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 84.6%; rating input score 85; 1st 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: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 99.3%; rating input score 99; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
    • 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: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 20.7%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.52; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.35; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 38.4%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -23.3% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -16.3% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -3.4% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 61% of revenue deployed · 76.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 9 filed program accomplishments · $1.5M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $230K · 14 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 26 of 28 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 14 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 9 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.
  • 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.

  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
  • 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 30/100.