Southern Headache Society
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 274944057
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Lakeway, TX, USA
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Brain Disorders Research
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $123,742
- Expenses
- $70,298
- Assets
- $140,547
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Rebecca Wells (Immediate Past President)
- Carrie Dougherty (President)
- Deborah Friedman (President-Elect)
People named in this filing
- Rebecca Wells (Immediate Past President)
- Carrie Dougherty (President)
- Deborah Friedman (President-Elect)
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
Providing educational and professional support for headache providers in the south
What it reported doing in 2025
Annual Meeting: educational and professional development meeting held annually geared towards healthcare providers who treat patients with headache disorders
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 92% 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: 45
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 34.9%; rating input score 35
- Program expense ratio: 61.7%; rating input score 62
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: 43.2%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 25.2%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 29.5% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 34.9% of revenue deployed · 61.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $43K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2015 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 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.