Society for Perioperative Assessment and Quality Improvement

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
593824032
IRS 990 coverage
2018–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2017
Location
Glenview, IL, USA
Phone
8475771814
Rating
72
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Surgical Specialties Research

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$779,575
Expenses
$424,885
Assets
$1,352,702
Liabilities
$155,347

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

Leadership & pay

20 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Angela Selzer MD (Vice President)
  • Jeanna Blitz MD (Past President)
  • Avital O'Glasser MD FACP FHM (President)

People named in this filing

  • Angela Selzer MD (Vice President)
  • Marjorie Gloff MD (Secretary)
  • Jeanna Blitz MD (Past President)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Provide a collaborative forum of multidisciplinary professionals to learn, educate, innovate, and collaborate to deliver high-value, safe perioperative practices.

What it reported doing in 2025

Sponsored a Perioperative Management Core Knowledge Certificate Program .This asynchronous program includes twenty educational sessions from fifteen experts who provide up to date information regarding best practice in preoperative optimization and perioperative management. Upon completion of the video series, there is an examination to assess knowledge and provide continuing education for those with a passing score on a post-session test. A SPAQI certificate will be presented to everyone who completes the course and the final exam. This is considered to provide a way to demonstrate competency and expertise in this unique subspecialty!

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 79% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 95% 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 most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 56
  • Transparency & Controls: 89
  • Accountability: 70
  • Sustainability: 77
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 47.1%; rating input score 47
  • Program expense ratio: 91%; rating input score 91
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • 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: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 45.5%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.18; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 10.9% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 12.5% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 22.4% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 47.1% of revenue deployed · 91% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 20 of 20 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $387K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 20 people listed
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $63K reported
  • Consistency: 20 of 21 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 to 2025
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 47/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.