Wpasts

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
922110207
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Rating
34
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Professional Societies, Associations

Reported finances

Revenue
$61,084
Expenses
$61,475
Assets
$1

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

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Angela Kinnunen (Executive Director)
  • Andy Kiser MD (WPASTS President)
  • Stephen Bailey MD (WPASTS Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Angela Kinnunen (Executive Director)
  • Andy Kiser MD (WPASTS President)
  • Stephen Bailey MD (WPASTS Vice President)

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 primary exempt purpose of WPASTS is education. WPASTS provides free Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education ACCME accredited educational activities to the cardiothoracic surgeons in practice or in training in the greater Western Pennsylvania region. Education is designed to feature national expert speakers and facilitates Western Pennsylvania cardiothoracic surgeons to provide evidence-based gold standard care in alignment with national guidelines and quality benchmarks to optimize the quality of clinical care provided to the Western Pennsylvania patient population. Provision of education and the planning fundraising for promotion and execution of WPASTS education activities constitutes the organizations exempt activities.

What it reported doing in 2025

In 2025 WPASTS hosted the WPASTS 2025 Annual Meeting attended by approximately 130 attending cardiothoracic surgeons in practice or in training in Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education ACGME accredited cardiothoracic surgery residency and fellowship programs. Attendees are predominately heart surgeons employed across the Greater Pittsburgh area region including Allegheny Health Network AHN the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center UPMC St. Clair Health System Independence Health System formerly Butler and Excela Regional Health Systems Heritage Valley Health System Mon Valley Health System Conemaugh Regional Health System Trinity Health System. WPASTS continuing medical education provided free of charge to the regions cardiac surgeons works to assure patients are served by surgeons conducting guideline-driven and evidence-based practice.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 96% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 28
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -0.6%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -17.3% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -22.1% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -142.8% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.