Church Health
Legal name: Church Health Center of Memphis Inc
Overview
Mission
As a faith-based health care not-for-profit, Church Health believes in caring for one another as we’d all like to be cared for. That's why we commit every day to making the highest quality health care accessible to more Memphians—especially those facing social and economic challenges—so we can all live our lives with dignity, vitality and joy.
What it reported doing in 2024
Community Outreach Program: Nutrition Hub - provides workshops & activities to teach smart food selection & healthy eating habits (819 patients/participants); The Well - provides programming for children focused on physical activity, nutrition, safety, & violence prevention(12,539 child visits); Memphis Area Prevention Coalition - educates youth & adults to reduce substance abuse and provides recovery support services
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 71% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 581716113
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Memphis, TN, USA
- Phone
- 9012727170
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Ambulatory Health Center, Community Clinic
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $30,102,949
- Expenses
- $25,666,799
- Assets
- $78,272,356
- Liabilities
- $13,933,915
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 77
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.6%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 91.8%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: $18.41 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14.7%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.05; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.4%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 78.6% of revenue deployed · 91.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $23.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $331K · 31 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 47 of 48 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 annual filings from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 17 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 55/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
Leadership & pay
31 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Glenn Scott Morris (Founder): $331,311 total reported compensation
- Jennie Robbins (Chief Executive Officer): $269,092 total reported compensation
- Jennifer Bartlett Prescott (Chief Operating Officer): $232,316 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024.