Partner for Surgery Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 542034427
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- McLean, VA, USA
- Phone
- 7033388068
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Health Support Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $490,387
- Expenses
- $534,102
- Assets
- $634,396
- Liabilities
- $62,363
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Todd Peterson (President)
People named in this filing
- Todd Peterson (President)
- Frank Peterson (Treasurer)
- Patricia Van Scoyoc (Director)
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
Partner for Surgery enables the most impoverished in Guatemala to receive the care offered by volunteer surgical teams, by providing the community development & infrastructure that both the communities & the surgical teams lack, creating a bridge between them.
What it reported doing in 2025
Cleft Surgical Support: Surgical Missions operate at out-patient clinics that include well-equipped operating rooms, a PACU, a post-op area, and a large sleeping and eating facility that can accommodate patients and their families. PfS/ACPC coordinates the transportation of patients for surgery. Every patient is accompanied by a Health Promoter, who provides all necessary patient logistics transportation, food, temporary housing. Before, during, and after each surgical week, our health promotors provide culturally appropriate care and attention to patients and their families. Our focus and commitment to each patient begin from when we first meet them until we walk them back home after surgery.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 94% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 58% for direct work, and 42% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 76
- Accountability: 89
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94.1%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 86.2%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.46 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Pass
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8.9%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.19; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.1% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.7% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.7% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 94.1% of revenue deployed · 86.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 11 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 6 filed program accomplishments · $460K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 25 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 6 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.