Illinois · Nonprofit
Council of Medical Specialty Societies
Council of Medical Specialty Societies (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,154,818 to it, the largest being GORDON E AND BETTY I MOORE FOUNDATION ($2,534,601). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $4.2M
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What Council of Medical Specialty Societies does
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.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
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.
$12,336,785 spentof which $9,506,494 as grants$2,067,524 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $12,336,785.
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 2020 to 2021, from $2.0M to $3.9M (+91%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 51% · 2023 74% · 2024 75%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of Council of Medical Specialty Societies’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Helen Burstin MD
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $45k → $1.4M.
From the IRS filings of Council of Medical Specialty Societies’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
Council of Medical Specialty Societies leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 93% — diversifying over time.
“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
Council of Medical Specialty Societies draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Council of Medical Specialty Societies has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,065 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,065 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like Council of Medical Specialty Societies
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Council of Medical Specialty Societies: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Council of Medical Specialty Societies?
- Council of Medical Specialty Societies (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,154,818 to it, the largest being GORDON E AND BETTY I MOORE FOUNDATION ($2,534,601). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Council of Medical Specialty Societies have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $4,154,818 in grants to Council of Medical Specialty Societies, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Council of Medical Specialty Societies?
- GORDON E AND BETTY I MOORE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,534,601 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Council of Medical Specialty Societies 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 4 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing