The Psychonomic Society Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 956195800
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Widnsor, WI, USA
- Phone
- 6084432472
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Mental Health, Crisis Intervention N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,818,854
- Expenses
- $2,096,362
- Assets
- $13,484,895
- Liabilities
- $207,308
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LOUIS SHOMETTE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- LOUIS SHOMETTE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $294,442 total reported compensation
- LISA DELVENTHAL (MANAGING DIRECTOR): $204,972 total reported compensation
- FABIO LEITE (TREASURER): $16,000 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 mission of the psychonomic society is to foster the science of cognition through the advancement and communication of basic research in experimental psychology and allied sciences.
What it reported doing in 2025
The society's annual meeting was held in person in New York city and had over 1,650 attendees.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 80% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 94% 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 most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 45
- Transparency & Controls: 69
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 72
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 40.6%; rating input score 41
- Program expense ratio: 63.9%; rating input score 64
- Fundraising efficiency: $1.6 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Limited
- Conducts field audits: Limited
- May suspend future funding: Limited
- Requires financial reports: Limited
- Conducts site visits: Limited
- Requires grant agreements: Limited
- May require repayment: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 25.6%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.43; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 25.2%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 40.6% of revenue deployed · 63.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $1.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $294K · 16 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $318K reported
- Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 41/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 4/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.