Mississippi Arthritis and Rheumatism Society

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 201604714
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2017–2025
Forms available: Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2016
Location: Schaumburg, IL, USA
Phone: 8475177225
Rating: 65
Verdict: SUPPORTED
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Professional Societies, Associations

Reported finances

Revenue: $128,700
Expenses: $109,516
Assets: $256,474
Liabilities: $64,384

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

Mary Beth E Lindsey DO (President)
Day Lennep MD FACR FACP (Vice President)
Dedri Ivory MD BS (Past President)

People named in this filing

Mary Beth E Lindsey DO (President)
Day Lennep MD FACR FACP (Vice President)
Lydia Walters MSN FNP-C (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To stimulate interest in and increase the knowledge of rheumatic diseases among physicians and laymen.

What it reported doing in 2025

Meetings held to stimulate interest in and increase the knowledge of rheumatic diseases among physicians and laymen.

Operating model

Revenue model: Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model: Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% 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 program spending has grown recently. 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: 48
Transparency & Controls: 82
Sustainability: 64
Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 45.1%; rating input score 45
Program expense ratio: 53%; rating input score 53

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

Operating margin: 14.9%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.34; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.25; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: 0.5% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: 14.4% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 45.1% of revenue deployed · 53% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $58K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
Schedules: 2 filed schedules
Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 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.

Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 45/100.
Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 53/100.
High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.