Management Sciences for Health Inc
Overview
Mission
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What it reported doing in 2024
Women and child health, and otherhealthy women, children, and adolescents are the foundation of universal health coverage. Working at entry level of the health systems, msh partners with countries and communities to develop and implement locally- led solutions to reach women- across the continuum from pre-pregancy through postpartum - and children - from birth through chldhood adolescence - with affordable, high-quality primary care. We strengthen skills, knowledge, policies, and practices that bring lasting change in the availability, quality, accountability, affordability, and life-saving impact of reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health services, in even the most vulnerable communities. Msh strengthens governance as the backbone of a sustainable, responsive health systems, and supports empowered women in taking on leadership and demanding accountability. We foster sustainable institutional change - strengthened leadership, better - supported health workers, people-centered care models, and evidence-informed quality improvement - so that health systems can consistently deliver high-quality care that is used and that improves health outcomes. We introduce and scale up new interventions and innovations, including in health system organiation and financing to support accessible, affordable, sustainable services.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 74% for direct work, and 26% for grants.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 042482188
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Headquarters
- Medford, MA, USA
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International, Foreign Affairs
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 76
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.6%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 71%; rating input score 71
- Fundraising efficiency: $15,287.75 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Grant itemization coverage: 96.9%; rating input score 97; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
- Public monitoring controls: Limited
- Public policy transparency: Limited
- Public financial transparency: Limited
- Impact reporting controls: Limited
- Public relationship transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Public governance controls: Limited
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 0.44; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.37; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.1%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -9.3% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.9% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72.6% of revenue deployed · 71% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $93.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $611K · 45 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 35 of 37 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 16 annual filings from 2009 to 2024
- Money network: 41 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 12 filed related-organization links