The Foundation of the Pennsylvania Medical Society
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 371732501
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
- Phone
- 7175587810
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,369,814
- Expenses
- $3,676,686
- Assets
- $15,183,874
- Liabilities
- $1,376,198
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- MARTIN P RANIOWSKI MA CAE FCPP (TRUSTEE): $406,460 total reported compensation
- HEATHER A WILSON MSWCFRECAEFCPP (SECRETARY & EXECUTIVE DIRE): $281,001 total reported compensation
- ANNETTE M WEAVER (SENIOR DIRECTOR OF FINANCE AND OPERATIONS): $167,114 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The foundation of the Pennsylvania medical society provides programs and services for individual physicians and others that improve the well-being of pennsylvanians and sustain the future of medicine.
What it reported doing in 2025
Lifeguard, a nationally recognized program, is a vanguard for addressing clinical competency assessment needs for physicians and other healthcare professionals. Conceptualized by doctors for doctors, lifeguard provides comprehensive assessment services and recommendations for remediation tailored to individual needs. Through individually customized programs, lifeguard provides an unbiased assessment of physician clinical performance with the goal of enhancing patient safety and quality of care. Since inception, lifeguard has served physicians in 31 states and the district of columbia. In 2025, 52 physicians completed their respective lifeguard pathway.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 65% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76.2%; rating input score 76
- Program expense ratio: 85%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.1 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15.9%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.13; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 23.6%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 76.2% of revenue deployed · 85% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $3.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $406K · 20 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 4 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 15/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 50/100.