Society for Vascular Ultrasound
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 823881654
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- St Louis Park, MN, USA
- Phone
- 3014597550
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,108,826
- Expenses
- $1,087,727
- Assets
- $916,198
- Liabilities
- $605,112
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Josh Lee (President)
- Brian Sapp (President Elect)
- Anita Harrington (Immed. Past President)
- Andrew Spear (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Josh Lee (President)
- Brian Sapp (President Elect)
- Patrick Washko (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Society for Vascular Ultrasound ("the Society"), is a professional society dedicated to the enhancement of public welfare by fostering optimal patient care and vascular disease prevention through professional training and education, promotion of scientific research, leadership in development of professional guidelines, facilitation of cooperation between health professions, consultation and coordination of activities involving noninvasive vascular technology, and the formulation of health care policies.
What it reported doing in 2025
Journal and Newsletters: SVU publishes a quarterly scientific, peer-reviewed Journal for Vascular Ultrasound (JVU), and monthly online newsletter called E-Spectrum. -JVU contains original articles on basic and clinical aspects of vascular diagnostics, advances in the field, techniques, book reviews, case studies, and viewpoints.-The E-Spectrum newsletter reports on SVU's federal legislative/regulatory advocacy efforts, job listings, training courses, new product information, educational opportunities, programs of interest, products, and other SVU activities and news of interest to the vascular profession.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 88% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 7th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.9%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.84; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.66; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 16 of 16 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 17 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $368K reported
- Consistency: 10 of 11 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.