North American Specialized Coagulation Laboratory
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 411996160
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Rochester, MN, USA
- Phone
- 5072811468
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Medical Disciplines Research
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $374,825
- Expenses
- $332,850
- Assets
- $960,986
- Liabilities
- $884
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KRISTI SMOCK MD (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ELIZABETH A PLUMHOFF MTASCP (EXECUTIVE DI): $52,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Nascola's primary mission is to provide external quality assessment (proficiency testing) for tests used to diagnose bleeding or prothrombotic disorders, thereby promoting high standards of performance and practice for specialized coagulation laboratories in the USA, canada, mexico, central america and the caribbean. Other missions of nascola include promoting education for physicians, laboratory technologists, and other healthcare professionals, enhancing communication among laboratories performing specialized coagulation testing, developing guidelines for appropriate use, performance and interpretation of coagulation tests and results, providing a forum for critical evaluation of existing and new laboratory test procedures, instrumentation and reagents, collaborating with other national and international organizations focused on providing external quality assessment for hemostasis and thrombosis testing, and supporting collaborative research.
What it reported doing in 2025
Proficiency testing is offered at low cost for many special coagulation tests(factor deficiencies, hypercoagulability, etc) including those that are rarely assessed by other programs (factor xiii, factor viii inhibitor, fibrinolysis assays, interpretation of platelet aggregation findings, platelet dense granule evaluation, and others).
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 97% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 63
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.9%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 91.2%; rating input score 91
- 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.2%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.89; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.6%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.9% of revenue deployed · 91.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $304K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $52K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 7 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 51/100.