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COUNCIL OF MEDICAL SPECIALTY SOCIETIES

EIN 36-2868605 SCHAUMBURG, IL

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Revenue 2024
$13,836,018
Expenses 2024
$13,287,262

Program services were 92.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B54C
Classification
1000
Street
1061 AMERICAN LN

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).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

Supporting and strengthening member societies to address future challenges. Catalyzing improvement through convening, collaboration, collective voice and action across specialties. Providing a proactive platform to assess and address emerging and critical issues across specialty societies that influence the future of healthcare and the patients we serve.

  • CMSS main purpose is to provide a forum for collaboration to influence the future of healthcare, medical education and accreditation from a broad, cross-specialty perspective. CMSS is the unified voice for specialty societies established to improve the US healthcare system and health of the public.

    Expenses $12,336,785 · Grants $9,506,494 · Revenue $2,067,524

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Patricia Turner MD

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Clifford Hudis MD

    President-Elect

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Mary Post MBA CAE

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ken Slaw PHD

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sue Sedory MA CAE

    Past President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Michael Sheppard CPA CAE

    Past President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Steven McLeod MD

    At-Large Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Mark Del Monte JD

    At-Large Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Tracy Sereiko MBA CAE

    At-Large Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Sual Levin MD

    At-Large Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Donna Cryer JD

    Public Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Manuel Paniagua

    At-Large Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Susan Gaffney

    Public Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Helen Burstin MD

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $741,207
    From this org
    $603,165
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $138,042
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $603,165
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $36,811
    Nontaxable benefits
    $101,231
    Filer's total
    $741,207
  • Julia Peterson

    Chief Operating Officer

    Total calculated
    $189,541
    From this org
    $176,476
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,065
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $176,476
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $7,416
    Nontaxable benefits
    $5,649
    Filer's total
    $189,541
  • Sarah Imhoff

    Senior Program Director

    Total calculated
    $184,714
    From this org
    $177,269
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,445
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $177,269
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $7,445
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $184,714
  • Suzanne Pope

    Program Director

    Total calculated
    $178,650
    From this org
    $171,450
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,200
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $171,450
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $7,200
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $178,650
  • Ashland V Ruth

    Program Director

    Total calculated
    $110,923
    From this org
    $101,446
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,477
    Hours/week
    40

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $13,836,018
    Expenses
    $13,287,262
    Contributions
    $11,725,387
    Grants paid
    $9,506,494
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $12,471,540
    Expenses
    $12,488,428
    Contributions
    $10,586,729
    Grants paid
    $9,149,746
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $5,516,538
    Expenses
    $5,187,307
    Contributions
    $3,652,997
    Grants paid
    $2,991,048

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
    $1,843,688
    Expenses
    $1,642,091
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,906,097
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,478,385
    Expenses
    $1,039,493
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,044,998
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,679,268
    Expenses
    $1,365,186
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,459,147
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,589,465
    Expenses
    $1,412,612
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,140,395
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,550,755
    Expenses
    $1,335,639
    Assets (EOY)
    $753,265
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,490,850
    Expenses
    $1,339,152
    Assets (EOY)
    $635,646
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,328,441
    Expenses
    $1,288,184
    Assets (EOY)
    $419,611
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,114,311
    Expenses
    $1,118,856
    Assets (EOY)
    $487,730
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $967,541
    Expenses
    $968,741
    Assets (EOY)
    $445,465
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $919,894
    Assets (EOY)
    $376,126

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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.