Sinus Care Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 262287879
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2014
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2014, Form 990-N 2008
- Location
- Atherton, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6503994630
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Specifically Named Diseases Research
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,540
- Expenses
- $11,419
- Assets
- $872
- Liabilities
- $6,000
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2014. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- WINSTON C VAUGHAN MD (Director)
- KAREN J FONG MD (Director)
- JOHN KEARNS (ADMINISTRATOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2014. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Sinus Care Foundation's primary role is educational. Through our annual course, the SCF teaches ENT doctors from around the world advanced techniques in sinus surgery. These doctors then will hopefully incorporate the learning objectives in their practices to improve the care of patients with sinus problems.Learning Objectives:1. Discuss new technology and instruments that are available to improve treatment of sinus disease.2. Apply new disection techniques to improve results in difficult endoscopic sinus surgery cases.3. Describe management options in refractory sinus patients.Approximately 40-50 surgeons are trained each year.
What it reported doing in 2014
Advanced Techniques in ESS - A comprehensive continuing medical education program in rhinology and sinus surgery for otolaryngologists. This course features didactic instruction, individual cadaver dissection and live surgery.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 4
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 68%; rating input score 68
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -641.5%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.08; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 6.88; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 21.9%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -171.3% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -45.5% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -83.8% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 68% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $8K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2011 to 2014
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is not authorized to operate as a charity in California.