AMERICAN BOARD OF MEDICAL SPECIALTIES

As filed

Subsection

06

Classification

2000

Street

353 N CLARK ST STE 1400

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE 1400). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

• AMERICAN BOARD OF MEDICAL SPECIALTIES RESEARCH & EDUCATION F

  EIN 23-7304902

Mission and programs · 2025

• IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ITS MEMBER BOARDS, ABMS IS A LEADER IN SETTING RIGOROUS STANDARDS FOR BOARD CERTIFICATION ACROSS 38 MEDICAL SPECIALTIES AND 89 MEDICAL SUBSPECIALTIES. WHILE MEMBER BOARDS TAILOR THESE STANDARDS TO THEIR SPECIFIC SPECIALTIES AND SUBSPECIALTIES, ABMS SUPPORTS THE MEMBER BOARDS IN THE OVERALL IMPLEMENTATION OF THE STANDARDS BY PROVIDING LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES AND RESOURCES REGARDING EVALUATION, ASSESSMENT AND POLICY DEVELOPMENT RELATIVE TO CERTIFICATION. THESE SUPPORTS ARE CRITICAL TO THE ABMS COMMUNITY. AT PRESENT, IN THE UNITED STATES, ABMS MEMBER BOARDS HAVE CERTIFIED MORE THAN ONE MILLION PHYSICIANS AND MEDICAL SPECIALISTS.

• INTERNATIONALLY, ABMS CONTRACTS WITH THE SINGAPORE MINISTRY OF HEALTH TO DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN A PROGRAM OF PHYSICIAN ASSESSMENT AND CERTIFICATION FOR SINGAPORE'S PHYSICIANS AND MEDICAL SPECIALISTS, AS WELL AS CONSULTS WITH OTHER COUNTRIES AND COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE WORLD SEEKING TO EXPLORE OR ESTABLISH PHYSICIAN AND MEDICAL SPECIALTY CERTIFICATION PROGRAMS.

• ABMS CONVENES LEADERS AND STAKEHOLDERS FROM ACROSS THE ABMS AND THE GREATER HEALTH CARE COMMUNITIES TO DISCUSS CURRENT AND EMERGING ISSUES IN TODAY'S HEALTH CARE SYSTEM, SEEKING TO UNDERSTAND WAYS IN WHICH ABMS AND ITS MEMBER BOARDS CAN ADDRESS THOSE ISSUES TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF PATIENT CARE.

• IN TERMS OF ADVOCACY, ABMS COMMUNICATES INFORMATION ABOUT AND EMPHASIZES THE IMPORTANCE OF BOARD CERTIFICATION TO DIPLOMATES, MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS, HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS, INSURERS, LEGISLATORS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC. THESE COMMUNICATIONS PROVIDE THESE AUDIENCES AND ADVOCATES WITH FACTUAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF BOARD CERTIFICATION AND THE MARKER OF TRUST SIGNIFIED BY THE CREDENTIAL. CERTIFICATIONMATTERS.ORG, A FREE, PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE WEBSITE OFFERED BY ABMS TO PROVIDE INFORMATION ABOUT BOARD CERTIFICATION. ANY INDIVIDUAL MAY ACCESS THIS SITE TO DETERMINE IF A PHYSICIAN OR MEDICAL SPECIALIST IS BOARD CERTIFIED BY AN ABMS MEMBER BOARD. IN TERMS OF RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, ABMS AND ITS MEMBER BOARDS ACTIVELY STUDY AND SUPPORT RESEARCH INTO THE IMPACT THAT CERTIFICATION PROGRAMS HAVE ON BOTH THE PROFESSION OF MEDICINE AS WELL AS IMPROVING PATIENT SAFETY AND HEALTH CARE. ABMS IS ALSO COMMITTED TO PHYSICIAN PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AS PART OF ITS MEMBER BOARDS' CONTINUING CERTIFICATION PROGRAMS, INCLUDING CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION AND QUALITY AND PRACTICE IMPROVEMENT ACTIVITIES.

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

The first 25 listed. 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2025

  Revenue

  $25,196,152

  Expenses

  $27,474,805

  Contributions

  $0

  Grants paid

  $6,462,820

• 2023

  Revenue

  $21,808,011

  Expenses

  $18,468,046

  Contributions

  $0

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $21,397,111

  Expenses

  $17,622,393

  Contributions

  $2,700

  Grants paid

  $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $22,297,576

  Expenses

  $17,544,840

  Assets (EOY)

  $33,424,313

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $20,237,205

  Expenses

  $17,639,354

  Assets (EOY)

  $27,765,999

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $22,297,714

  Expenses

  $19,392,403

  Assets (EOY)

  $23,246,326

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $18,567,602

  Expenses

  $20,737,868

  Assets (EOY)

  $21,628,159

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $19,643,541

  Expenses

  $20,754,145

  Assets (EOY)

  $23,627,851

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $18,165,072

  Expenses

  $18,574,071

  Assets (EOY)

  $23,474,560

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $18,216,786

  Expenses

  $17,927,976

  Assets (EOY)

  $22,762,759

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $18,558,916

  Expenses

  $18,495,553

  Assets (EOY)

  $22,460,249

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $18,607,395

  Expenses

  $16,796,871

  Assets (EOY)

  $22,128,632

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $14,865,739

  Assets (EOY)

  $19,033,273

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

• AMERICAN BOARD OF MEDICAL SPECIALTIES RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION

  $6,462,820

  2025 · GENERAL SUPPORT

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• THE ABIM FOUNDATION

  $15,000

  2024 · SUPPORT A VISITING SCHOLAR THAT WILL WORK WITH ABIM AND/OR ABIM FOUNDATION STAFF ON AN INDEPENDENT RESEARCH PROJECT

• THE AMERICAN BOARD OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY INC

  $15,000

  2024 · VISITING SCHOLAR FUNDING

• AMERICAN BOARD OF PEDIATRICS INC

  $15,000

  2024 · To support research in competency-based evaluations, patient outcomes, diagnostic excellence, and diversity, equity, and inclusion as it relates to board certification.

• AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

  $10,000

  2024 · 2024 AMERICAN BOARD OF MEDICAL SPECIALTIES CONFERENCE SPONSORSHIP

• AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

  $10,000

  2023 · AMERICAN BOARD OF MEDICAL SPECIALTIES CONFERENCE SPONSORSHIP

• AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

  $10,000

  2022 · AMERICAN BOARD OF MEDICAL SPECIALTIES CONFERENCE SPONSORSHIP

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

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