Society for Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 111866747
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Mclean, VA, USA
- Phone
- 7035569222
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Voluntary Health Associations & Medical Disciplines N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,009,567
- Expenses
- $977,619
- Assets
- $1,871,834
- Liabilities
- $155,994
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JANET TOMIYAMA PHD (PRESIDENT)
- ANNA MARSLAND PHD (PRESIDENT-ELECT)
- TARA GRUENEWALD PHD MPH (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT (INCOMING))
- PETER GIANAROS PHD (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT (OUTGOING))
- CONNIE MACKAY (ASSOCIATE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- LAURA DEGNON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- JANET TOMIYAMA PHD (PRESIDENT)
- ANNA MARSLAND PHD (PRESIDENT-ELECT)
- ARIC PRATHER PHD (SECRETARY-TREASURER (INCOMING))
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To advance biopsychosocial science and its application for health.
What it reported doing in 2024
Committee projects and awards - committees focus on projects including professional medical education interests and awards. The society offers various awards: md travel awards, herbert weiner career award, patricia r. Barchas award in sociophysiology, young scholar awards, travel assistance awards, medical student/medical resident/medical fellow travel scholarships, minority initiative travel awards, donald oken fellowship, paul maclean award for outstanding neuroscience research, young neuroscientists travel awards, and distinguished scientist award. Description of each of these awards may be found on the society's website.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 92% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 96% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 72
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 86.3%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Claims monitoring procedures: Limited
- Requires narrative reports: Limited
- Conducts field audits: Limited
- May suspend future funding: Limited
- Requires financial reports: Limited
- Conducts site visits: Limited
- Requires grant agreements: Limited
- May require repayment: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.2%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.91; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 86.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $844K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $349K reported
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes foreign activity and grants
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 45/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.