American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery

The certifying board for orthopaedic surgeons, setting and maintaining the standard that separates a licensed physician from a trusted specialist in the musculoskeletal system.

  • www.abos.org
  • Citadel
  • Chapel Hill, NC
  • Professional and scientific society
  • Read from public sources, Jul 2026
8named by peers

Financial profile

American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery · EIN 36-6000057 · 501(c)(6)

Fiscal yearTotal revenueContributionsProgram servicesTotal expensesNet assetsYear end
FY2023$12,820,770$0$10,162,610$11,870,986$50,174,903Dec 2023
FY2022$322,369$0$9,453,670$11,496,295$44,107,242Dec 2022
FY2021$12,251,504$0$8,988,700$9,361,501$55,281,168Dec 2021
FY2020$11,314,730$0$8,838,535$8,078,413$49,030,752Dec 2020
FY2019$9,196,284$0$7,345,508$9,266,395$41,107,011Dec 2019
FY2018$2,019,494$0$624,710$2,095,556$34,799,771Dec 2018

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Peer societies

Five societies American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery is read alongside.

Who backs ABOS

No public supporter list found as of September 2026.

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Who backs American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery's peers, but not American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery

Companies named publicly by at least one of American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery's five peer societies, and not found in American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery's reviewed public records.

CompanyAAOSPeers
Advita OrthoNamed1 of 1
Cohere HealthNamed1 of 1
DePuy SynthesNamed1 of 1
EnovisNamed1 of 1
LINK Orthopaedics UK LtdNamed1 of 1
Smith+NephewNamed1 of 1
StrykerNamed1 of 1
Zimmer BiometNamed1 of 1

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The outside view

The certifying board for orthopaedic surgeons, setting and maintaining the standard that separates a licensed physician from a trusted specialist in the musculoskeletal system.

  • Authority
  • Preserve
  • Outward
  • Operational

Their shape

The Citadel

Led from the center, built to endure.

The Citadel runs on clarity and decisiveness, its direction held by a strong center the whole organization moves behind. Its gift is speed and coherence, its challenge is leaning too heavily on the few at the middle.

Also reads toward The Guild and The Republic.

Strengths

→Decisions are clear and rarely second-guessed.
→Members trust that the institution will still be standing tomorrow.
→Strong operations keep the core running without drama.

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