Partnership For Quality Medical Donation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 233097238
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Annapolis, MD, USA
- Phone
- 4108487036
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Research Institutes and Public Policy Analysis
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,487,590
- Expenses
- $1,387,840
- Assets
- $2,399,560
- Liabilities
- $888,000
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Elizabeth Ashbourne (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Elizabeth Ashbourne (Executive Director): $218,473 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 Partnership for Quality Medical Donations is a unique alliance of non profit and corporate organizations committed to bringing measurable health impact to under served and vulnerable people through active engagement of global partners and local communities.
What it reported doing in 2025
PQMD members helped millions of people suffering from Ebola, Sickle Cell Disease, River Blindness, HIV/AIDs, TB, Malaria, an array of neglected tropical diseases, poor nutrition, and many other health challenges in the US and countries around the world. PQMD members and their partners combine product contributions with cash, volunteers, training and other services to support a wide range of global health programs. Members work together with multilateral, national and sub-national governments, other companies and international nongovernmental organizations, to pursue disease elimination as a public health problem, develop healthcare infrastructure, build the capacity of in-country healthcare workers, and fill gaps in local health-related services. We accomplish this through setting and promoting quality standards, disseminating knowledge and influencing policy.
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.6%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- 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: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.7%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.73; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.37; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.7%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.3% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.2% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 93.6% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $218K · 12 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2011 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: CEO compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.