Medical Fitness Association
Legal name: Medical Fitness Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 364259889
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Indianapolis, IN, United States
- Phone
- 910.420.8610
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $488,243
- Expenses
- $407,581
- Assets
- $200,904
- Liabilities
- $125,894
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DAVID FLENCH (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- DAVID FLENCH (PRESIDENT & CEO): $131,845 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Medical Fitness Association is a non-profit professional membership organization providing industry standards, educational programs, certification opportunities, benchmark data, professional development, and networking opportunities for improving operational success and healthcare integration. MFA Program Accreditations are designed to help organizations operationalize that shift by providing structured, standards-based frameworks in emerging areas of clinical priority. These accreditations go beyond individual programs. They create a clear pathway for aligning with healthcare providers, demonstrating measurable outcomes, and positioning your organization as a trusted extension of the care continuum. As the industry continues to move toward prevention, chronic condition management, and whole-person health, MFA’s role is to define the standards and provide the framework to support...
What it reported doing in 2024
Surveys & research reports - conduct surveys on topics important to the decision makers in this community. Benchmarks for success is the only national, comprehensive survey of medically integrated fitness and wellness centers. The publication is designed for medically integrated fitness and fitness and rehabilitation professionals, healthcare business development executives, medical practitioners, and others in the field of fitness, wellness, and lifestyle management. Provides a comprehensive overview of the state of the industry, serves as a starting point for benchmarking for medical fitness facilities, and can help guide the development of medical fitness center projects and collaborations, membership provided education and webinars, newsletters, surveys, networking opportunities, regional conferences, annual management conference, publicatios, benchmark data, and personalized responses to inquiries.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 100% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- 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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 16.5%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.49; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.63; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 32.3%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -29.8% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.8% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.5% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $132K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 10 of 10 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.