Oncology Nursing Society
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 510183279
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Phone
- 4128596100
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $31,242,706
- Expenses
- $32,405,506
- Assets
- $43,628,977
- Liabilities
- $11,108,412
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
23 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JESSICA MACINTYRE PRESIDENT (PRESIDENT)
- RYNE WILSON (PRESIDENT ELECT (AS OF 12/25))
- BRENDA NEVIDJON (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
- LORI BROWN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- ANNA POLYAK (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER (ENTER 11/25))
- ANGELA STENGEL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ONF)
Highest reported compensation
- BRENDA NEVIDJON (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $572,014 total reported compensation
- KRISTINE BURNS (CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER): $407,420 total reported compensation
- LORI BROWN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $311,085 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) is a professional organization that supports and empowers oncology nurses to lead the transformation of cancer care.
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization publishes two peer-reviewed journals on a bimonthly basis, which are provided exclusively to members as part of their membership benefits. These journals disseminate evidence-based research and clinical information to support oncology nursing practice and improve patient care. Supplemental issues are also published periodically to address emerging topics and developments in the field.in addition, the organization produces a weekly open-access newsmagazine that provides timely updates on oncology nursing, research, and professional issues. The organization also develops, publishes, and sells educational books and other publications focused on oncology nursing and patient care.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 73% 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: 88
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 100
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: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.7%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.35; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.25; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.1%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 32.6% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $572K · 23 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $4M reported
- Consistency: 14 of 14 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 12 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 204 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 29/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.