Specialized Medical Standards Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 844377002
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Colorado Springs, CO, USA
- Phone
- 7192380833
- Rating
- 94
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Medical Disciplines
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $168,828
- Expenses
- $155,052
- Assets
- $38,116
- Liabilities
- $4,536
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Sean Keenan (CEO -Chair of Board of Trustees)
People named in this filing
- Sean Keenan (CEO -Chair of Board of Trustees)
- Herman Tiemens (Trustee)
- Susan Mellow (Trustee)
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
Medical Education
What it reported doing in 2025
SMS designs and distributes high-quality prehospital/Emergency Medical Services education and training. Created Curriculum for Pilot courses and began to distribute material.
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 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.8%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
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: 8.2%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.25; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.9%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 44.9% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 22.7% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 91.8% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $155K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.