National Board of Medical Examiners

Analysis

National Board of Medical Examiners is a registered charity in United States, based in Philadelphia, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1937, 89 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, National Board of Medical Examiners reported income of $174.2m and spending of $163.7m, spending 94% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $180.7m to $174.2m (-3.6%), an average of -0.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 34%. Over the whole period it spent 91% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, National Board of Medical Examiners sits at the 97th percentile: it is larger than about 96% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 100th percentile, and in the 99th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Arkansas Health Group ($174.1m), American Society of Clinical Oncology ($174.3m) and Upmc ($174.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 94% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $5.0m (3.0% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $61.2m. At year end it held assets of $444.8m against liabilities of $119.1m, net assets of $325.7m. It reported 657 employees.