Patient Safety Movement Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
462730379
IRS 990 coverage
2015–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2020
Location
Irvine, CA, USA
Phone
9492307588
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Education N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$716,990
Expenses
$734,110
Assets
$63,514
Liabilities
$31,457

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

18 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Mike Durkin (President)
  • Michael AE Ramsay (CEO)
  • Robin Betts (Vice President)

Highest reported compensation

  • Sanaz Massoumi (COO): $232,834 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Our mission is to disseminate actionable, evidence-based practices, advance their integration by healthcare organizations, and cultivate data transparency by 2030.

What it reported doing in 2025

Over the past year, our one-of-a-kind fellowship program has continued to attract strong interest from healthcare professionals worldwide, reflecting the growing demand for high-level patient safety training. PSMF has expanded the fellowship to meet this need while remaining committed to offering the program at no cost to participantsensuring broad access to critical education and advancing our mission to achieve ZERO preventable deaths and create safer healthcare systems globally. This program plays a key role in equipping professionals to drive meaningful improvements in healthcare delivery. Building on the programs momentum in recent years, we continue to deliver high-quality instruction through a collaborative and globally accessible learning model. A cornerstone of the program is its structured mentorship approach, which pairs fellows with both individual mentors and group mentors to support capacity-building and foster a global network of patient safety leaders. Upon completion, fellows earn the FKGIPS designation, which they may include in their professional credentials as a reflection of their commitment, expertise, and leadership in advancing safer healthcare. Through this experience, fellows develop key competencies in patient safety, leadership, and systems improvement, enabling them to lead meaningful change within their organizations and across healthcare systems worldwide.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 88
  • Transparency & Controls: 70
  • Accountability: 83
  • Sustainability: 15
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 90.3%; rating input score 90
  • Program expense ratio: 88.2%; rating input score 88
  • Fundraising efficiency: $49.15 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • 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: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -2.4%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.09; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.5; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 31.7%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -11.3% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -15.6% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -14.8% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 90.3% of revenue deployed · 88.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 14 of 16 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $648K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $233K · 18 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.