National Upper Cervical Chiropractic Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 311705245
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025
- Location
- Plymouth, MN, USA
- Phone
- 8005415799
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $515,207
- Expenses
- $431,139
- Assets
- $1,000,079
- Liabilities
- $191,858
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Dr Glen Cripe (President)
- Dr Kurt Sherwood (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Dr Glen Cripe (President)
- Dr Daiki Ishiyama (Director)
- Dr Julia Radwanski (Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Chiropractic education
What it reported doing in 2025
Seminars, meetings and associated fees-seminars are conducted for the educational benefit of students and practitioners of the upper cervical chiroptractic trade.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 36
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 36.7%; rating input score 37
- Program expense ratio: 44.9%; rating input score 45
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 16.3%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.32; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.19; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 18.2% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 36.7% of revenue deployed · 44.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $194K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $176K reported
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and related organizations
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 37/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 45/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.