Kansas · Nonprofit
FEDERATION OF STATE MASSAGE THERAPY BOARDS
FEDERATION OF STATE MASSAGE THERAPY BOARDS (Kansas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,201 to it, the largest being SeldinHaring-Smith Foundation ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.5M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $22M
What Federation of State Massage Therapy Boards does
Mission
The mission of the federation is to support its member boards in their work to ensure that the practice of massage therapy is provided to the public safely and competently.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provide education, services, and guidance to member boards that help them fulfill their statutory, professional, public, and ethical obligations in the efficient and effective regulation of licensed professionals. Such services facilitate assurance that regulatory boards understand and adhere to their public protection roles and responsibilities in regulating the profession and supports the abilities of government to act on behalf of the public. Improve the standards of massage therapy education, licensure, and practice through cooperation with entities that share the objective, including other massage therapy organizations, accredited agencies, governmental bodies, and groups whose areas of interest may coincide with those of member boards. (continued on schedule o)establishment and reinforcement of such standards. Support common sense state regulations of the profession through legislatively enacted statutes.
$3,574,942 spent$407,362 earned by the program76% of program spendingEnsure the provision of a valid, reliable licensing examination to determine entry level competence for licensure in the interest of the protection of health, safety, and welfare of the public. This program reinforces consumer benefits by accessing enforcement, due process and protection mechanisms through government involvement, empowerment, and authority, while reducing the burden on government.
$1,133,579 spent$5,113,221 earned by the program24% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,708,521.
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 $14M to $16M (+17%).
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: 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of FEDERATION OF STATE MASSAGE THERAPY BOARDS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
Debra Persinger
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $31 → $37.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of FEDERATION OF STATE MASSAGE THERAPY BOARDS’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
FEDERATION OF STATE MASSAGE THERAPY BOARDS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
FEDERATION OF STATE MASSAGE THERAPY BOARDS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Kansas, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $201 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
FEDERATION OF STATE MASSAGE THERAPY BOARDS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FEDERATION OF STATE MASSAGE THERAPY BOARDS
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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FEDERATION OF STATE MASSAGE THERAPY BOARDS: 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 FEDERATION OF STATE MASSAGE THERAPY BOARDS?
- FEDERATION OF STATE MASSAGE THERAPY BOARDS (Kansas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,201 to it, the largest being SeldinHaring-Smith Foundation ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FEDERATION OF STATE MASSAGE THERAPY BOARDS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $10,201 in grants to FEDERATION OF STATE MASSAGE THERAPY BOARDS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FEDERATION OF STATE MASSAGE THERAPY BOARDS?
- SeldinHaring-Smith Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FEDERATION OF STATE MASSAGE THERAPY BOARDS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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