International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 200499338
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Denver, CO, USA
- Phone
- 8554642752
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $28,627,995
- Expenses
- $26,021,479
- Assets
- $35,555,926
- Liabilities
- $10,301,756
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
28 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KAREN L KELLY MD (CEO)
- CAICUN ZHOU MD PHD (PRESIDENT EL)
- PAUL VAN SCHIL MD PHD (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- KAREN L KELLY MD (CEO): $512,109 total reported compensation
- JOHN SKADOW (CFO): $254,206 total reported compensation
- MATTHEW YEINGST (VP): $254,206 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Be the multidisciplinary world authority on lung and other thoracic cancers through colllaborative science, education, and advocacy in order to ensure optimal prevention and patient care.
What it reported doing in 2024
Publications & scientific programs to provide education to the worldwide lung cancer community regarding the latest advances in lung cancer treatment.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 91% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 94% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 77
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.1%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 84.8%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.07 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Pass
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.1%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.37; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.29; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.1% of revenue deployed · 84.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $22.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $512K · 28 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.4M reported
- Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 17 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 8 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 16/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.