Forensic Nursing Certification Board
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 830716320
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Gainesville, GA, USA
- Phone
- 7705345151
- Rating
- 48
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $57,521
- Expenses
- $40,777
- Assets
- $27,366
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DR DEBORAH ST GERMAIN (PRESIDENT)
- DR PATRICIA M SPECK (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)
- DR STACEY A MITCHELL (PAST PRESIDENT EMERITUS)
- DR ELIZABETH BURGESS DOWDELL (PRESIDENT-ELECT)
People named in this filing
- DR DEBORAH ST GERMAIN (PRESIDENT)
- DR PATRICIA M SPECK (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)
- DR STACEY A MITCHELL (PAST PRESIDENT EMERITUS)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The fncb vision is creation of forensic nursing leaders through quality education validated by standardization, accreditation, and certification. The fncb mission is to provide the foundation necessary to support undergraduate and graduate education of forensic nurses in academic educational institutions globally for the purposes of specialty role validation through certification and accreditation. The fncb documents derive from a consensus driven iterative processes to establish a bias free, evidence-based, and scientific foundation for forensic nursing education and practice with populations affected by trauma and violence across the lifespan and through death.
What it reported doing in 2025
To provide professional certifications reflecting current forensic nursing science to promote and improve the quality care to patients intersecting with the legal system by adhering to excellence in research and quality improvement in care through certification of forensic nurses.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 88% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 25
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 21.5%; rating input score 22
- Program expense ratio: 30.4%; rating input score 30
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 29.1%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.67; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 21.5% of revenue deployed · 30.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $12K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 22/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 30/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.