Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
THE AMERICAN BOARD OF SURGERY INC
THE AMERICAN BOARD OF SURGERY INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $200,000 to it, the largest being ACCREDITATION COUNCIL FOR GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION ($200,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $22M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $200k
- Net assets
- $37M
What The American Board of Surgery Inc does
Mission
Administration of in-training, certification, recertification and continuous certification exams and assessments in general surgery, as well as specialty areas of vascular surgery, pediatric surgery, surgical critical care, complex general surgical oncology, hand surgery, and focused practice designation in metabolic and bariatric surgery and adult complex thyroid and parathyroid surgery. The abs also provides a surgical education portal to programs and individuals. As of january 2025, hand surgery diplomates are now certified by the american board of plastic surgery.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The abs incurs costs associated with the development, initial certification and administration of continuous certification and focused practice designation by abs, and in issuing certificates of qualification to all candidates meeting the abs's requirements. During the fiscal year ended june 30, 2025, there were 29,732 individuals who took an examination, including 11,562 surgery residents taking their in-training examinations, 2,116 individuals obtained initial certification, 13,324 took the continuous certification assessment for general and other specialties, 46 abs diplomates took the metabolic and bariatric surgery focused practice designation, and 109 abs diplomates took the adult complex thyroid and parathyroid surgery focus practice designation. The types of examinations the costs are incurred for include the following: in-training, qualifying, certifying, re-entry, continuous certification assessments including entrustable professional activity assessments, and focused practice recognition. The areas of specialty include general surgery and vascular surgery, and subspecialties include surgical critical care, pediatric surgery, surgery of the hand, complex general surgical…
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $37M to $46M (+23%).
How it's funded, over time
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Government-grant reliance: 2022 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Jo Buyske Md
President & CEO, ex-officio
Board chair
Amy J Goldberg Md
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
Left out of every figure on this page: $10k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Assoc of Program Directors in Surgery). These are real filings, and they are not money THE AMERICAN BOARD OF SURGERY INC raised.
From the IRS filings of THE AMERICAN BOARD OF SURGERY INC’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.
Where its funders are
THE AMERICAN BOARD OF SURGERY INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 1 state in all.
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.
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Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE AMERICAN BOARD OF SURGERY INC?
- THE AMERICAN BOARD OF SURGERY INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $200,000 to it, the largest being ACCREDITATION COUNCIL FOR GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION ($200,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE AMERICAN BOARD OF SURGERY INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $200,000 in grants to THE AMERICAN BOARD OF SURGERY INC.
- Who is the largest funder of THE AMERICAN BOARD OF SURGERY INC?
- ACCREDITATION COUNCIL FOR GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE AMERICAN BOARD OF SURGERY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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