Loma Linda University
Overview
Mission
To make man whole
What it reported doing in 2024
School of allied health professions prepares graduates to be employees of choice for premier organizations around the world by providing them with practical learning experiences through partnerships with those open to sharing our vision. Since 1966 the school has been training highly skilled and dedicated health care professionals in many fields. Whatever their specialty, graduates enjoy job security, good paying wages, and the pleasures of a personally rewarding career. The school offers over fifty specialized health care degree options in the fields of cardiopulmonary sciences, clinical laboratory sciences, communication sciences and disorders, health infomatics and information management and administration, nutrition and dietetics, occupational therapy, orthotics and prosthetics, physical therapy, physician assistant sciences, and radiation technology.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 76% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 91% 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
- 951816009
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Headquarters
- Loma Linda, CA, US
- Phone
- 909-558-1000
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- University or Technological Institute
- Affiliation
- Christianity
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 64
- Accountability: 83
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.7%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 66.7%; rating input score 67
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.49 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: 99.8%; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 78.4%; rating input score 78; 25th 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: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.6%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.56; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.59; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.4%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 71.7% of revenue deployed · 66.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 29 of 37 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $262.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.4M · 62 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $183.7M reported
- Consistency: 40 of 40 current checks pass
- Schedules: 12 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 16 annual filings from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 15 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 42 filed related-organization links
- 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.
Leadership & pay
62 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- ANGELA LALAS (CFO): $1,437,742 total reported compensation
- ANTHONY HILLIARD (TRUSTEE): $1,239,386 total reported compensation
- TREVOR WRIGHT (TRUSTEE (THRU 10/24)): $1,085,884 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: FY2024.