Access Community Health Network
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 363317058
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Chicago, IL, US
- Phone
- 1.866.267.2353
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Ambulatory Health Center, Community Clinic
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $165,645,419
- Expenses
- $177,184,214
- Assets
- $81,324,212
- Liabilities
- $39,375,999
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
30 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MAHOMED OUEDRAOGO (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- MAHOMED OUEDRAOGO (CEO): $939,460 total reported compensation
- KWANG JANG (PHYSICIAN): $437,687 total reported compensation
- JAIRO MEJIA (CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER): $389,467 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Optimal health is a lifelong journey.
What it reported doing in 2024
Community health centers - access offers a full range of comprehensive, quality health care services conveniently located right in your community. Our primary care services include: family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics, school and sports physicals, obstetric/gynecological and midwifery services, and management of chronic diseases, such as diabetes, asthma, and high blood pressure. Other services available at select sites include: low-cost breast and cervical cancer screenings, behavioral health services, HIV/AIDS counseling, testing and primary care, substance abuse treatment program, case management, and specialty care services.this fiscal year access served approximately 151,000 unique patients, including approximately 27,000 unique uninsured patients.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 83% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.5%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 78.9%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th 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: -7%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.46; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.48; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.6%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 84.5% of revenue deployed · 78.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 16 of 16 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $139.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $939K · 30 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $5.4M reported
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 14 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 37/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 45/100.