Form 990 for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$484,417

Total expenses

$1,096,260

Contributions and grants received

$480,000

Grants paid

$195,000

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$4,417

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$508,457

Total liabilities, end of year

$3,265,111

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

-$2,756,654

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$478,171

Management and general expenses

$618,089

Fundraising expenses

$0

Program service expenses (Part III)

$478,171

Program services were 43.6% 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.

Mission and programs · 2023

• ABMS REF OVERSEES THE IMPLEMENTATION AND COORDINATION OF THE ABMS VISITING SCHOLARS PROGRAM (VSP). VSP IS FOR EARLY-CAREER PHYSICIANS, MEDICAL AND SURGICAL SPECIALISTS, AND RESEARCH PROFESSIONALS, JUNIOR FACULTY, FELLOWS, AND RESIDENTS, AS WELL AS INDIVIDUALS HOLDING MASTER OR DOCTORATE DEGREES IN PUBLIC HEALTH, HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH, EDUCATIONAL EVALUATION AND STATISTICS, PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION, OR OTHER RELEVANT DISCIPLINES.VSP SCHOLARS ARE EXPOSED TO THE FIELDS OF PHYSICIAN PROFESSIONAL ASSESSMENT AND CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, QUALITY IMPROVEMENT, HEALTH CARE POLICY AND REGULATION, AND HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH. VSP SCHOLARS CONDUCT RESEARCH IN (CONTINUED IN SCH O) COLLABORATION WTH MENTORS FROM THEIR INSITITUTIONS, ABMS, AND ABMS MEMBER BOARDS. THROUGH THEIR RESEARCH AND PROGRAM ENGAGEMENT, VSP SCHOLARS INFORM THE STUDY OF CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, PHYSICIAN ASSESSMENT, SELF-REGULATION, AND QUALITY IMPROVEMENT.

  Expenses $230,102 · Grants $195,000

• ABMS REF SYNERGIZES, GUIDES, CONVENES, FACILITATES CONDUCTS, AND COLLABORATES IN RELATION TO ALL ASPECTS OF RESEARCH REGARDING ABMS INITIAL AND CONTINUING CERTIFICATION ACROSS 24 MEMBER BOARDS. ABMS REF ALSO PARTNERS WITH OTHER RESEARCHERS TO DEVELOP RESEARCH IN THE AREAS OF QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT, PATIENT SAFETY, ADULT LEARNING AND EDUCATION, RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION AND OTHER DISCIPLINES. THE ABMS REF CONDUCTS PROGRAM EVALUATION AND RESEARCH ON THE ABMS LONGITUDINAL ASSESSMENT PROGRAMS TO ANALYZE PHYSICIAN KNOWLEDGE, JUDGEMENT, AND SKILLS.

  Expenses $227,360

• ABMS REF DEVELOPS, DEPLOYS, MAINTAINS, AND IMPROVES AN ONLINE REPOSITORY OF PUBLISHED LITERATURE AND OTHER PRESENTATIONS ON INITIAL PHYSICIAN SPECIALTY CERTIFICATION, CONTINUING PHYSICIAN SPECIALTY CERTIFICATION, OR COMPONENTS OF CONTINUOUS CERTIFICATION SUCH AS KNOWLEDGE ASSESSMENT, ADULT LEARNING AND EDUCATION, AND QUALITY IMPROVEMENT. THIS CURATED REPOSITORY INFORMS RESEARCHERS, KEY STAKEHOLDERS AND ABMS MEMBER BOARDS REGARDING FINDINGS THAT CAN BE USED TO IMPROVE THE CERTIFICATION PROCESS.

  Expenses $20,709

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

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

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

• JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

  $60,000

  VISITING SCHOLAR PROGRAM

• UNIV OF PITTSBURGH

  $30,000

  VISITING SCHOLAR PROGRAM

• UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA - CHAPEL HILL

  $15,000

  VISITING SCHOLAR PROGRAM

• THE CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION

  $15,000

  VISITING SCHOLAR PROGRAM

• SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY

  $15,000

  VISITING SCHOLAR PROGRAM

• MAYO CLINIC

  $15,000

  VISITING SCHOLAR PROGRAM

• LAHEY CLINIC INC

  $15,000

  VISITING SCHOLAR PROGRAM

• HOUSTON METHODIST RESEARCH INSTITUTE

  $15,000

  VISITING SCHOLAR PROGRAM

• CINCINNATI CHILDRENS HOPSITAL MEDICAL CENTER

  $15,000

  VISITING SCHOLAR PROGRAM

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

• AMERICAN BOARD OF MEDICAL SPECIALTIES

  501(C)(6) · CERTIFICATION · IL

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2023

Filed

13 September 2024

IRS schema version

2023v5.1

Source object

202412619349301561

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