Physicians for Social Responsibility
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237059731
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2012
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2026674260
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,615,747
- Expenses
- $2,180,066
- Assets
- $499,782
- Liabilities
- $484,841
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
28 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TODD SACK MD FACP (PRESIDENT)
- MARK R VOSSLER MD (PRESIDENT ELECT)
- MICHAEL MARTIN MD MPH MBA (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)
- BRIAN CAMPBELL PHD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- W TAYLOR CARNEIRO-JOHNSON MFA DLS (DIRECTOR OF ADMIN, OPERATIONS, & FINANCE): $153,305 total reported compensation
- BRIAN CAMPBELL PHD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $153,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Guided by the values and expertise of medicine and public health, physicians for social responsibility works to protect human life from the gravest threats to health and survival.
What it reported doing in 2024
Psr's chapters carry out psr's mission and priorities at the local level. They work to gain support for psr priorities and legislative goals; promote psr's presence, programs, and priorities in the local medical community and in the community at large; actively recruit new psr members, support membership retention, and develop members into activists through mutual support and encouragement and through local outreach and organizing efforts. They mentor and support medical students and student chapters where possible.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 93% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 9
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.2%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 65.4%; rating input score 65
- Fundraising efficiency: $9.59 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 36; 36th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: -34.9%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.23; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.97; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14.1%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.5% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.5% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 88.2% of revenue deployed · 65.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 23 of 23 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $1.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $153K · 28 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.