Western Pain Society

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
208299156
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2010–2020
Forms available
Form 990 2018, Form 990-EZ 2020
Location
Cottage Grove, OR, USA
Phone
5419531739
Rating
73
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,055
Expenses
$53,567
Assets
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • BILL MCCARBERG (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • JENNIFER WAGNER (EXEC DIRECTO)
  • DANIEL BRUZAK (BOARD MEMBER)
  • ROBERT HINES (BOARD MEMBER)

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 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Western pain society is a multidisciplinary community of caring and passionate healthcare providers that seeks to advance the standard of care for people through continuing education, advocacy, research and patient outreach.

What it reported doing in 2020

Heightening the healthcare community's awareness and understanding of pain to ensure that it is treated appropriately and with compassion. Encouraging research and discussion of pain and its causes and treatments to broaden our knowledge and improve patient care. Supporting the american pain society's establishment of pain as a major health problem and developing standards for the prevention and treatment of pain. Engaging and encouraging people in pain to help them understand their conditions, get the help they need and achieve an improved quality of life.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 86% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 96% 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 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: 75
  • Sustainability: 1
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 62.6%; rating input score 63

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -4,977.4%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 53.7%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -7.8% per year; rating input score 0; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -22.6% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -15.7% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 62.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $34K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2010 to 2020
  • 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 1/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.