The Dyspnea Society
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 931673754
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Roanoke, VA, USA
- Phone
- 6172814292
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,259
- Expenses
- $2,067
- Assets
- $16,412
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Andrew Binks (President)
People named in this filing
- Andrew Binks (President)
- Janelle York (Secretary)
- Marie Williams (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The purpose of The Dyspnea Society is to promote research of the mechanisms, measurement and management of dyspnea (a.k.a. Shortness of breath or breathlessness). This goal is achieved by an international and multidisciplinary membership of clinicians and scientists who advance the scientific knowledge of dyspnea and its translation into clinical practice.
What it reported doing in 2025
The society has a biannual in-person meeting. The fiscal year of 2025 did not include our in-person meeting (the society met in Lund, Sweden in June 2026. In August 2025 the society held its first online meeting that was free to members but necessitated purchasing and using third party conferencing support (FourWaves.com)
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 73
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 55%; rating input score 55
- Program expense ratio: 86.6%; rating input score 87
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 36.6%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.94; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.2% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -75.8% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -37.1% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 55% of revenue deployed · 86.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $2K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 55/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.