Truth About Nursing Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
263944281
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2009–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Baltimore, MD, USA
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Education N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$129,228
Expenses
$44,662
Assets
$353,574

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Sandy Summers (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Sandy Summers (Executive Director)
  • Gina Pistulka (Board Chair)
  • Richard Kimball (Vice Chair)

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 Truth About Nursing seeks to increase public understanding of the central front-line role nurses play in modern health care. Our focus is to promote more accurate balanced and frequent media portrayals of nurses and increase the medias use of nurses as expert sources. The Truth About Nursings ultimate goal is to foster growth in the size and diversity of the nursing profession at a time of critical shortage strengthen nursing practice teaching and research and improve the health care system.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 81
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 65.4%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.92; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -7.2% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 18.7% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 31% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2009 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.

  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.