Smell and Taste Association of North America
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 863760720
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Phone
- 3019962609
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $138,953
- Expenses
- $58,861
- Assets
- $101,952
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KATHERINE BOATENG (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- KATHERINE BOATENG (PRESIDENT)
- PAMELA SILBERMAN (TREASURER)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We seek to improve the quality of life for people with smell and taste disorders, recognizing that the loss of taste or smell can affect health, safety, and emotional well-being. We strive to expand research, education, and treatments for people living in north america who are experiencing the invisible loss of these senses.
What it reported doing in 2025
General program - contract with the patient-centered outcomes research institute (pcori) supporting smell and taste disorders: building stana's capacity for patient engagement in chemosensory cer and general activities of the nonprofit serving as a patient advocacy organization for individuals with smell and taste disorders
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 94% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 54
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 78
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 35.8%; rating input score 36
- Program expense ratio: 84.4%; rating input score 84
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 57.6%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.73; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.1%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 50.8% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 44.1% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 54.4% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 35.8% of revenue deployed · 84.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $50K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.