Form 990 for tax year 2024
Filed by CENTER FOR PRACTICAL BIOETHICS INC.
Totals
- Total revenue
- $1,152,520
- Total expenses
- $1,527,309
- Contributions and grants received
- $740,004
- Grants paid
- $0
- Program service revenue
- $378,177
- Investment income
- $79,439
- Other revenue
- -$45,100
- Total assets, end of year
- $6,612,507
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $123,824
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $6,488,683
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $1,002,263
- Management and general expenses
- $244,316
- Fundraising expenses
- $280,730
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $1,002,263
Program services were 65.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
Line items
Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.
Revenue
Part VIII, the statement of revenue.
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1a · Federated campaigns
$0
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1b · Membership dues
$15,000
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1c · Fundraising events
$128,044
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1d · Related organizations
$0
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1e · Government grants (contributions)
$0
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$596,960
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1g · Noncash contributions included above
$0
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2a · Program service revenue: Earned Income
total $378,172 · related or exempt $378,172 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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2b · Program service revenue: Publications
total $5 · related or exempt $5 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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2f · All other program service revenue
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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3 · Investment income
total $79,439 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $79,439
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4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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5 · Royalties
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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6c · Rental income or loss
real property $0 · personal property $0
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7c · Gain or loss
securities $0 · other assets $0
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8a · Fundraising events: gross income
$17,500
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8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c
$128,044
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8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses
$64,017
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8c · Net income from fundraising events
total -$46,517 · unrelated business $0 · excluded -$46,517
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11a · Other revenue: Other income
total $1,417 · related or exempt $1,417 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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11d · All other revenue
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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11e · Other revenue, total
$1,417
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $200,000 · program services $80,000 · management and general $40,000 · fundraising $80,000
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7 · Other salaries and wages
total $695,747 · program services $621,242 · management and general $46,469 · fundraising $28,036
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8 · Pension plan contributions
total $23,081 · program services $18,069 · management and general $2,228 · fundraising $2,784
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9 · Other employee benefits
total $77,183 · program services $58,015 · management and general $10,230 · fundraising $8,938
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10 · Payroll taxes
total $64,969 · program services $50,861 · management and general $6,272 · fundraising $7,836
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11c · Fees: accounting
total $70,702 · program services $55,350 · management and general $6,825 · fundraising $8,527
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11g · Fees: other
total $239,710 · program services $80,218 · management and general $85,553 · fundraising $73,939
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12 · Advertising and promotion
total $30,953 · program services $1,500 · management and general $1,443 · fundraising $28,010
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13 · Office expenses
total $24,627 · program services $4,043 · management and general $18,954 · fundraising $1,630
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16 · Occupancy
total $14,833 · program services $11,613 · management and general $1,432 · fundraising $1,788
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17 · Travel
total $7,354 · program services $2,090 · management and general $5,264 · fundraising $0
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19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $48,675 · program services $5,777 · management and general $5,734 · fundraising $37,164
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20 · Interest
total $4,638 · program services $3,631 · management and general $448 · fundraising $559
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22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $12,224 · program services $0 · management and general $12,224 · fundraising $0
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23 · Insurance
total $6,794 · program services $5,319 · management and general $655 · fundraising $820
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24a · Other expenses: Equipment
total $5,794 · program services $4,535 · management and general $560 · fundraising $699
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24b · Other expenses: Other operating expense
total $25 · program services $0 · management and general $25 · fundraising $0
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $46,634 · end of year $40,336
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2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
beginning of year $125,495 · end of year $80,000
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3 · Pledges and grants receivable
beginning of year $133,500 · end of year $45,000
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4 · Accounts receivable
beginning of year $113,989 · end of year $57,729
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8 · Inventories for sale or use
beginning of year $1,980
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9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges
beginning of year $42,627 · end of year $9,837
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10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis
$52,099
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10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation
$41,223
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10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
beginning of year $21,431 · end of year $10,876
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11 · Investments: publicly traded securities
beginning of year $2,751,039 · end of year $2,895,584
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15 · Other assets
beginning of year $3,426,052 · end of year $3,473,145
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17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $67,680 · end of year $37,836
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19 · Deferred revenue
beginning of year $50,000 · end of year $28,618
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23 · Secured mortgages and notes payable
beginning of year $50,000 · end of year $50,000
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25 · Other liabilities
beginning of year $160,714 · end of year $7,370
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27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $11,465 · end of year -$128,335
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28 · Net assets with donor restrictions
beginning of year $6,322,888 · end of year $6,617,018
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
The mission of the Center for Practical Bioethics is to raise and respond to ethical issues in health and healthcare.
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Ethics Education and Consultation includes teaching medical students and clinicians; managing the KC Regional Ethics Committee Consortium (now in our 38th year); presenting educational lectures, symposia and workshops; developing and curating resources, including the website which contains more than 4,000 reports, guidelines, policy briefs, program resources, and audio/video recordings of interviews, lectures, and symposia. Education and Consultation also includes leading ethics consultations for healthcare providers and individuals, providing policymaker guidance and teaching at two area medical schools (the University of Kansas Medical Center and Kansas City University).
Expenses $675,279 · Revenue $332,153
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Advance Care Planning builds on the Center's legacy work in end-of-life care, focusing on increasing participation in advance care planning in diverse communities. We provide individual consultation and community workshops and disseminate Caring Conversations resources. The Center helps to support providers at various stages of development of the Transportable Physician Orders for Patient Preferences (TPOPP), a bi-state initiative of a national voluntary POLST program. This program seeks to better align treatment plans with goals and values of patients.
Expenses $91,285
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Emerging Issues and Systems Change includes issues in healthcare that raise ethical concerns and identifies the need for systems change. The current focus is on the policies, individual champion leaders, organizational structures, and community voice that support the responsible and ethical use of artificial intelligence-enabled technologies in health and healthcare. The Center's core values of advocacy and justice underpin our actions, programs, and strategies, leading to identification of bias, pressing for representation and diversity, and building equitable delivery of healthcare. Moreover, we passionately attend to and protect the interests of those whose voices have been historically unheard or unheeded in health and healthcare.
Expenses $235,699 · Revenue $13,394
As filed on the 2024 return.
Listed in Part VII
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James Stowe
President/CEO
- Total calculated
- $213,260
- From this org
- $183,358
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $29,902
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $183,358
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $29,902
- Filer's total
- $213,260
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Tarris D Rosell
Rosemary Flanigan Chair
- Total calculated
- $170,429
- From this org
- $165,086
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $5,343
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $165,086
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $5,343
- Filer's total
- $170,429
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Ryan Pferdehirt
Vice President of Ethics Services
- Total calculated
- $169,023
- From this org
- $139,884
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $29,139
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $139,884
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $29,139
- Filer's total
- $169,023
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John Carney
President/CEO
- Total calculated
- $152,067
- From this org
- $152,067
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $0
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $152,067
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0
- Filer's total
- $152,067
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Lindsey Jarrett
Vice President of Ethical AI
- Total calculated
- $131,266
- From this org
- $107,448
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $23,818
- Hours/week
- 40
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Eva Karp DHA MBA RN-C FACHE
Immediate Past Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1.7
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Stephen Salanski MD
Board Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1.7
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Tresia Franklin CEBS CFA CCP
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1.7
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Mark R Thompson JD
Vice Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1.7
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Abiodun Akinwuntan PhD MPH MBA
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.8
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Karen Johnson PhD
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.8
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Alan S Edelman
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.8
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Jane Lombard MD MBA
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1.7
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Maggie Neustadt JD CPHRM FASHRM
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.8
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Mary Beth Blake JD
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.8
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Norberto Ayala-Flores MA
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.8
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Edward O'Connor PhD MBA FACHE
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.8
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Mitzi Cardenas MS
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.8
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Anita Ho PhD MPH
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.8
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Marvia Jones PhD MPH
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.8
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Mike Rode CFA
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.8
-
Raghu Adiga MD
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.8
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Victoria Leff MSW LSCW APHSW-C
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.8
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Immaculada de Melo-Martin PhD MS
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.8
Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.
Schedule J
Answered yes
- 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
Answered no
- 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
- 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
- 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
- 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
- 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
- 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
- 7 · Other non-fixed payments
- 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception
The filer's explanations (Part III)
- Schedule J, Part I, Line 4
- John Carney, $152,067
Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.
Grants on this return
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2024
- Filed
- 12 November 2025
- IRS schema version
- 2024v5.0
- Source object
- 202513179349303176
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