Abdominal Core Health Quality Collaborative

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
844009654
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Centennial, CO, USA
Phone
7204329992
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Alliance/Advocacy

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,661,208
Expenses
$1,473,249
Assets
$578,443
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Benjamin Poulose MD (Director and Vice President)
  • Michael Rosen MD (Director, President, And CMO)
  • Nicole Goddard (Executive Director)

Highest reported compensation

  • Michael Rosen MD (Director, President, And CMO): $124,992 total reported compensation
  • Benjamin Poulose MD (Director and Vice President): $18,229 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Abdominal core health quality collaborative improves the quality and value in the surgical treatment of hernia, abdominal core, and abdominal wall disease through collaboration. See schedule o for continuation.

What it reported doing in 2024

Provided educational programs to both achqc volunteer surgeons who contribute data on their surgeries to the achqc registry and to all other surgeons to share lessons learned from the data collected in order to improve surgical practice and standards. Including: (1) the 2024 annual quality improvement summit was held in person in denver and hosted over 106 stakeholders in patient care (26 more then in 2023)who in a collaborative interactive learning weekend analyzed data, identified tips from high performers and shared practices for quality improvement in patient care, and (2) periodic training and informational videos which are posted on the achqc.org website & achqc's youtube channel (ref: https://www.youtube.com/@achqc/videos). Videos included training on the registry's oberd platform, hernia live replay videos, a posting of the achqc session at the americas hernia society's annual 2024 scientific meeting, several patient testimonials, and resident training videos (qc uncut).

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% 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.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 75
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 69
  • Sustainability: 51
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 71.5%; rating input score 71
  • Program expense ratio: 80.6%; rating input score 81
  • Fundraising efficiency: $38.9 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 11.3%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.39; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 9.7%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 13.6% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -5.1% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 71.5% of revenue deployed · 80.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 10 of 12 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.2M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $125K · 13 people listed
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $906K reported
  • Consistency: 26 of 27 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 38/100.