Vesalius Foundation for Visual Communications in Health Sciences
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 201609682
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Placitas, NM, USA
- Phone
- 5052076236
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Voluntary Health Associations & Medical Disciplines N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $39,233
- Expenses
- $58,425
- Assets
- $463,954
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOAN TYCKO (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- TINA SCHOTT (EXECUTIVE DI)
- JOAN TYCKO (PRESIDENT)
- WILLIAM HAMILTON (VICE PRESIDE)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide leadership for the advancement of education and research in visual communication for the health sciences.
What it reported doing in 2024
Scholarship awards based on academic achievement and merit to students attending programs in biocommunications. Sixteen (16) scholarships were awarded during the year ended june 30, 2025.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Investment-supported. 65% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 65% for direct work, and 35% for grants.
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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.7%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 64%; rating input score 64
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -48.9%; rating input score 13; 13th 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: 41.1%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -9.5% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 99.7% of revenue deployed · 64% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $37K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.