International Society of Aquatic Medicine
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 953105147
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Fort Collins, CO, USA
- Phone
- 7069495315
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $131,196
- Expenses
- $138,039
- Assets
- $59,078
- Liabilities
- $62
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ann Marie Padilla MD (President)
People named in this filing
- Ann Marie Padilla MD (President)
- Thomas Fralich MD (Secretary Treasurer)
- Paul Neis MD (Board Member)
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 Society offers unique opportunities to dive in exotic places and at the same time obtain knowledge and earn CME credit. Our programs include diving medicine, hyperbaric medicine, diving safety, treatment of venomous animal stings and bites, and diagnosis and treatment of decompression illness.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our annual spring meetings are held in the Caribbean area, and it is at that meeting most of our members attend. Category 1 CME credits are offered. Several times during the year smaller groups venture to even more exclusive locales such as Fiji, the Coral Sea, Australia, as well as other dive sites in the Caribbean. On each of our smaller trips we have an instructor to provide stimulating conversations and lectures pertinent to diving. The smaller meetings offer Category 2 CME credits. Our annual spring meeting is always held the week before Memorial Day in May from a Saturday to Saturday. Our annual summer meeting is held the first week in August. The Society publishes a quarterly newsletter to update all 1800 members. Included are topics of current interest in diving medicine, new advances made in scuba diving, the ecology of the oceans, and personal experiences of exotic dive locales.
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5.2%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.43; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -12.1% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -11.3% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $138K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.