PHYSICIANS COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIBLE MEDICINE INC

Financials

From the e-filed returns the IRS publishes as XML (latest three processing years; amended returns replace the original). PDF copies at the IRS.

Officers, directors and key employees

As listed on the 990 for the year ended July 31, 2025, highest compensation first.

Address and contacts

Address (IRS master file)

5100 WISCONSIN AVE NW STE 400, WASHINGTON, DC 20016-4131

Principal officer (990 for 2024)

Neal D Barnard MD, 5100 Wisconsin Avenue NW 400, Washington, DC 20016

Signed the 990

Betsy Wason, Sec/Sr VP DEV

Phone

(202) 686-2210

Website

www.pcrm.org

Return prepared by

ARKIN & LEARY PC

Mission

The Physicians Committee promotes preventive medicine, particularly good nutrition, conducts clinical research, and encourages higher standards for ethics and effectiveness in research.

Program accomplishments

• CommunicationsWorking with physicians, health experts, and celebrities who serve as spokespeople, we inform, persuade, and inspire readers through strategic media relations, social media, digital communications, print publications, and advertisements. Our work was featured in traditional news outlets including Washington Post, New York Times, Newsweek, Baltimore Sun, BBC, Detroit News, New York Post, Oregonian, Sun Sentinel, STAT, ABC News, NBC News, Fox News, Science, MedicalXpress, Everyday Health, Womans World, MedPage Today, Science Magazine, Economic Times, and many more. Our doctor-authored op-eds have been published in major newspapers including Colorado Newsline, Detroit News, Cal Matters, Med Central, Med Page Today, Oregonian, and Utah News Dispatch. Print and online news coverage generated 3,024 news articles and an average of 6.57 million unique visitors per month. Our social media content created conversations daily among more than 1.4 million followers on 21 social media accounts. In FY 2025, 20.7 million accounts were reached across Meta platforms and X. YouTube's following grew to 491.3K, up 22K subscribers from the previous year, and our videos were viewed 4.3 million times. The Exam Room Podcast was downloaded more than 4.1 million times on podcast platforms in FY 2025 and nearly 25 million from its launch in 2018. Our website received 3,990,751 total page views in FY 2025. We completed more than 800 separately tracked print and display materials, promotional merchandise, and electronic graphics and e-publications. Good Medicine, the Physicians Committees 24-page magazine, keeps members informed and involved. Four issues of Good Medicine were published in FY 2025. Total print distribution was 303,322.
  Expenses $5,485,308 · grants $45,000
• Research and Regulatory Affairs The Physicians Committee advances human-specific, nonanimal approaches in research, testing, and education through scientific support, policy change, training, and outreach. In fiscal year 2025, our scientists worked to overcome barriers to adoption of nonanimal methods by providing input to federal agencies through responses to Federal Register requests and presentations at agency meetings. We continue to lead a multi-institutional collaboration to document and reduce bias favoring animal use and to promote human-relevant approaches. To expand training, we provided direct instruction to agency staff, continuing education courses, and a regulatory program on nonanimal methods. We also supported scientific society webinars, reaching more than 6,000 scientists live, with many more accessing recordings. Our biennial Summer Immersion training program received the inaugural NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences education and training prize. Recognizing the need for global access, we launched a toxicology training program conducted fully in Spanish and expanded access to recorded trainings with subtitles in multiple languages. Our team published 15 peer-reviewed articles addressing bias in animal research, the limitations of animal ethics committees, xenotransplantation, and advances in new approach methodologies. We also continued efforts to modernize physician training by replacing animal use in residency programs. Largely as a result of our work, 99% of surveyed advanced trauma life support programs in the U.S. and Canada use nonanimal, human-based training methods. In addition, 97% of emergency medicine programs in the U.S. and Canada no longer use animals, and nearly 80% of surgery programs have replaced animals.
  Expenses $5,042,869 · revenue $57
• Nutrition Education Nutrition experts grew a variety of educational programs to promote plant-based diets for health. To educate clinicians, the Nutrition Guide for Clinicians, a diagnostic and treatment mobile application, reached 6,165 new users, with nearly 80,000 users to date. NutritionCME.org reached 1,373 health care professionals through online courses, and we reached 706 medical students through our medical school lunch-and-learn program. The clinician referral network brought in 40 new providers, for a total of 590 worldwide, and we added 20 new dietitians for a total of 91 preferred dietitians in our network. The Lets Beat Breast Cancer campaign grew to 58 events earning coverage in 75 media outlets with a reach of 83.8 million. The bilingual 21-Day Vegan Kickstart mobile application reached 36,000 people with menus, recipes, education, and cooking videos to support individuals transitioning to a plant-based diet. Our trilingual One Healthy World program reached 398,041 people across the world in English, French, and Spanish languages. In India we reached 5,330 students through lectures at 26 medical, nursing, and culinary schools. In China, we reached more than 1.02 million viewers during our 6th annual virtual conference, 19,540 people through a total of 110 lectures across 35 cities, and 27,307 through our online 21-Day Healthy Challenge program. The Food for Life program grew our network to 450 instructors and institutions and reached more than 21,500 students. Our National Diabetes Program reached 4,370 participants. Our Building Healthy Communities program grew to 440 leaders reaching more than 135,000 members globally.
  Expenses $4,774,289 · grants $66,539 · revenue $448,747
• Clinical Research We design and conduct clinical health and nutrition research studies, with the goal of bringing more attention to nutrition and prevention among health care professionals, medical researchers, policymakers, and patients. Our team members published 12 papers in peer-reviewed journals and presented the research at the American Diabetes Associations Scientific Sessions and at the International Symposium on Diabetes and Nutrition of the Diabetes and Nutrition Study Group of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes. In collaboration with Yale University, we are continuing a clinical trial that tests the effects of a vegan diet on liver and muscle fat in people with type 2 diabetes. We are also continuing a study in partnership with Blue Cross Blue Shield, tracking not only clinical outcomes, such as body weight and glycemic control, but also health care expenditures in people with type 2 diabetes. Our goal is to build upon the body of knowledge of the value of plant-based diets and generate wider acceptance, among the medical and scientific communities, policymakers, and the press, of the power of plant-based diets to prevent and treat disease.
  Expenses $2,113,394
• Education and Policy We lead advocacy efforts to expand the adoption and availability of plant-based diets. We advocate in Congress to end the inequitable statutory barriers that prevent students from accessing nondairy milks at schools, increase the availability of plant-based school meals, and push back against the dairy industrys efforts to force schools to serve dairy. We empower physicians, clinicians, and students to ensure their voices are heard on the need for better nutrition. We advocate to revise the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) to end its unnecessary promotion of meat and dairy and to instead promote healthy plant-based diets. We work alongside Native American tribal governments to ensure federal agencies consult with tribes regarding the DGA and that indigenous plant-based foods are incorporated. At the state level, we advocate for wider availability of plant-based foods in schools and other institutions. We also advocate at the federal and state level to encourage the funding, development, and implementation of human-relevant, nonanimal methods in medical research, education, and product testing. We consult federal agencies on their initiatives to reduce and end the use of animals in research, and we provide testimony and expertise to Congress on the same. We advocate for federal legislation that would ensure the National Institutes of Health is properly counting animals used in its funded laboratories, as well as legislation to remove requirements for animal testing and research. At the state level, we continue to work with legislators in Michigan to support legislation that would prohibit painful experiments on dogs and cats, and we seek an end to egregious and unproductive research on nonhuman primates in Oregon and nationwide. Physicians Committee President Neal Barnard, MD, FACC, oversaw clinical research studies and medical education programs, including the International Conference on Nutrition in Medicine. He presented at medical schools and hospitals and conducted interviews to educate listeners about healthful nutrition and modern ethical research methods. Our e-commerce and fulfillment operation provides educational literature and merchandise on nutrition and disease prevention to its members, the health care community, and the public. In fiscal year 2025, we fulfilled more than 900 physical orders, comprising 48,105 pieces of literature and merchandise (books, educational posters, etc.) shipped to locations worldwide. We welcomed 483 new customers. Additionally, the public downloaded 4,700 pieces of educational literature from our website.
  Expenses $842,746 · grants $21,479 · revenue $58,120
• Legal Advocacy Through litigation and petitions, we promote better health and ethical research practices. In California, the District of Columbia, Minnesota, Rhode Island, and Texas, we litigated on open government, First Amendment, and consumer protection grounds to raise public awareness about unethical experiments carried out on animals at large institutions. We submitted amicus briefs in nutrition cases and continued our litigation against the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment for violating state law by refusing to designate processed meat as a carcinogen, despite designation as such by the World Health Organization.
  Expenses $725,176

What it must file and when

IRS records say it files Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N. Its accounting year ends in July, so each return is due on the 15th day of the 5th month after that.

IRS record

EIN

52-1394893

Tax-exempt status

501(c)(3): Charitable, religious, educational or scientific organization

Foundation status

Publicly supported organization (170(b)(1)(A)(vi))

Donations deductible (Pub 78)

Public charity, 50% deduction limit

Exempt since

1988

Accounting year ends

July

Files

Form 990 or 990-EZ

Category (NTEE)

Health care (E85Z)

Assets (IRS master file)

$29,264,881

Income (IRS master file)

$36,518,032

Filing history

990-N: the IRS bulk file holds only the latest e-Postcard per organization; earlier years come from archived copies of that file since 2020 and can have gaps (the IRS e-Postcard search lists every one). 990, 990-EZ, 990-PF, 990-T: every e-filed return in the IRS e-file index since 2019; XML for the latest three processing years, amounts from the IRS Statistics of Income extracts before that. PDF copies and determination letters at the IRS (search EIN 52-1394893).

Questions about PHYSICIANS COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIBLE MEDICINE INC

What is the EIN of PHYSICIANS COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIBLE MEDICINE INC?

The employer identification number (EIN) of PHYSICIANS COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIBLE MEDICINE INC is 52-1394893.

Is PHYSICIANS COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIBLE MEDICINE INC tax-exempt?

Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 1988.

Are donations to PHYSICIANS COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIBLE MEDICINE INC tax-deductible?

Yes. It is listed in IRS Publication 78 (Public charity, 50% deduction limit).

Which annual return does PHYSICIANS COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIBLE MEDICINE INC file?

Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N.

When is the next return of PHYSICIANS COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIBLE MEDICINE INC due?

The return for tax year 2025 (the year ending July 31, 2026) is due December 15, 2026. Form 8868 extends it by six months; the 990-N cannot be extended.

When did PHYSICIANS COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIBLE MEDICINE INC last file with the IRS?

The latest return in the IRS public files is the 990 for the year ended July 2025.

Who is the principal officer of PHYSICIANS COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIBLE MEDICINE INC?

The 990 for the year ended July 31, 2025 names Neal D Barnard MD.

Who are the officers and directors of PHYSICIANS COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIBLE MEDICINE INC?

The 990 for the year ended July 31, 2025 lists 11 people; 6 received compensation from the organization, the highest $200,818 (Hana Kahleova MD PhD, Dir Clinical Res.).

How much revenue does PHYSICIANS COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIBLE MEDICINE INC have?

On its 990 for the year ended July 31, 2025 it reported revenue of $21,391,471, expenses of $23,901,833 and total assets of $29,264,881 at year end.

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