Scientiacme Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
271974763
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Phone
9495849563
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$555,924
Expenses
$592,812
Assets
$139,081
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Dr Charles J Turck PharmD (president, CEO, CMO, board member)

Highest reported compensation

  • Ani Mardakhanian (Manager of CME): $142,998 total reported compensation
  • Dr Charles J Turck PharmD (president, CEO, CMO, board member): $132,808 total reported compensation
  • Steven L Sachse (secretary, CFO, COO, CIO, board member): $26,670 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

ScientiaCME is dedicated to providing practicing healthcare professionals with the highest quality of continuing medical education (CME). CME is provided free of charge. We currently have over 90 online accredited activities, and have produced over 350 free online educational activities to date.

What it reported doing in 2025

This is an ACCME and ACPE accredited activity that will provide CME and CE to an estimated 1,100 Healthcare Professionals (HCPs) over the two year life of the activity. The activity will also offer Maintenance of Certification (MOC) to members of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM). HCPs will improve both their knowledge and competence which will be measured and presented in an outcomes report. Our ultimate goal is improvement of patient health. Physicians and other HCPs will participate in this activity to fufill their license and/or medical board requirements. Activity name: Keeping the pressure down: optimizing our approaches to managing pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) (online enduring program).

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 94% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 87% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 81
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 63
  • Sustainability: 22
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 93.1%; rating input score 93
  • Program expense ratio: 87.2%; rating input score 87
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 60%; rating input score 60; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • 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: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -6.6%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.23; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 51.2%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -8.1% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -13.6% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -12.4% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 93.1% of revenue deployed · 87.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 3 of 5 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $517K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $143K · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.