Illinois · Nonprofit
ACCREDITATION COUNCIL FOR GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION
ACCREDITATION COUNCIL FOR GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $165,275 to it, the largest being Council of Medical Specialty Societies ($83,734). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $89M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $165k
- Net assets
- $81M
What Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education does
Mission
Improve health care and population health by assessing and enhancing the quality of resident and fellow physicians' education through advancements in accreditation and education.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The acgme accredits sponsoring institutions and residency and fellowship programs, confers recognition on additional program formats or components, and dedicates resources to initiatives addressing areas of import in graduate medical education. This function includes setting and monitoring the professional education standards essential for preparing physicians to deliver safe, high-quality care to all americans. Requirements are set, and compliance with those requirements is assessed, by 29 specialty-specific review committees made up of volunteer physician experts in the field, including residents/fellows, as well as public representatives. Accreditation review occurs annually and includes consideration of several critical elements for every institution and program, including annual data updates (maintained through the acgme's accreditation data system) of statistical and narrative information, annual surveys of both residents/fellows and faculty members, and resident/fellow case logs. Periodic local site visits are conducted at different intervals, depending on accreditation status, by acgme field representatives. The applicable acgme review committee reviews all of this and…
$63,402,030 spentof which $717,918 as grants$78,975,672 earned by the program93% of program spendingThe acgme holds an annual educational conference for the graduate medical education (gme) community. The conference provides the unique opportunity for members of the broad gme community to gain knowledge, exchange ideas, and network. Attendees include designated institutional officials, program directors, institutional and program coordinators, faculty members, other specialists and administrators, residents and fellows, and representation from both the allopathic and osteopathic medical communities, as well as international gme. The two-and-a-half day conference features over 150 pre-conference courses/workshops, conference sessions, keynote speakers, and exhibitors. The acgme also sponsors and hosts numerous other educational programs and workshops throughout the year on a broad range of topics customized to the needs of the gme community at-large.
$4,167,008 spent$5,805,481 earned by the program6% of program spendingThe acgme does not provide consulting services in the united states. Outside the u.s., acgme global services offers customized advisory services to help governments and institutions optimize their postgraduate medical education (pgme) to deliver better health outcomes and safety to their populations. Clients may include ministries of health or equivalent governmental organizations, regional organizations involved with health professional education, and hospitals or hospital groups interested in starting pgme programs. The acgme assists its global clients develop pgme standards and systems to evaluate and accredit programs and their sponsoring institutions against these standards which are consistent with international best practices. It also provides infrastructure support to national and regional pgme accreditation organizations, including data collection, management, and analysis, provides training programs for standards developers, program evaluators and accreditors, site visitors, and pgme faculty members, assist potential training centers prepare to host pgme programs, and conducts seminars on the latest developments in pgme.
$918,411 spent$736,802 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $68,487,449.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $107M to $122M (+14%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
0% of ACCREDITATION COUNCIL FOR GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Thomas Nasca Md
President and chief executive office
Board chair
George Thibault Md
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $226k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Acgme International Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money ACCREDITATION COUNCIL FOR GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION raised.
From the IRS filings of ACCREDITATION COUNCIL FOR GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ACCREDITATION COUNCIL FOR GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
70% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ACCREDITATION COUNCIL FOR GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
63% of ACCREDITATION COUNCIL FOR GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ACCREDITATION COUNCIL FOR GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION's revenue grew 41% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,064 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding ACCREDITATION COUNCIL FOR GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10.8M on record.
- Department of Defense$9.0M
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.0M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$728k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ACCREDITATION COUNCIL FOR GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Acgme International Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ACCREDITATION COUNCIL FOR GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION?
- ACCREDITATION COUNCIL FOR GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $165,275 to it, the largest being Council of Medical Specialty Societies ($83,734). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ACCREDITATION COUNCIL FOR GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $165,275 in grants to ACCREDITATION COUNCIL FOR GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION.
- Who is the largest funder of ACCREDITATION COUNCIL FOR GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION?
- Council of Medical Specialty Societies is the largest funder on record, with $83,734 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACCREDITATION COUNCIL FOR GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing