Cs Gonstead Chiropractic Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 391998743
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Mount Horeb, WI, USA
- Phone
- 6084375627
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Health Treatment Facilities, Primarily Outpatient
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $353,966
- Expenses
- $374,162
- Assets
- $777,309
- Liabilities
- $371,820
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DAVID GEARY (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- STACEY ASLAN (VICE PRESIDE)
- RICK ELBERT (BOARD MEMBER)
- KRISTIN FELLOWS (SECRETARY)
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
We desire to continue the study and discipline of the gonstead system of chiropractic in order to reduce human suffrage in the world and set the example as a beacon within our profession. We underscore the admonition of dr gonstead who built this clinic for the chiropractic profession by teaching his timeless principles to ongoing chiropractic generations. In addition, continue the preservation efforts for this historic architectural clinic.
What it reported doing in 2025
Operations of the chiropractic clinic for the benefit of the public that utilizes the c.s. Gonstead system of chiropractic which correlates the patient's full spine and lateral xrays with chiropractic adjustments for better health. Presented educational seminars throughout the year to chiropractic physicians and students to teach the c.s. Gonstead system of chiropractic history and methods.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 83% 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 a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 74%; rating input score 74
- 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: Yes; rating input score 100
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5.7%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.08; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.48; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.1% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.8% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80% of revenue deployed · 74% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $277K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.