Alabama Hospital Association

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
630338569
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Montgomery, AL, USA
Phone
3342728781
Rating confidence
Limited

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$15,528,299
Expenses
$15,232,500
Assets
$14,107,046
Liabilities
$2,521,522

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

Leadership & pay

26 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DONALD E WILLIAMSON (PRESIDENT/CEO)
  • WESLEY ASHMORE (VICE PRESIDENT OF FINANCE)
  • STEPHEN MCCORMICK (VICE PRESIDENT WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT)
  • MARGARET WHATLEY (VICE PRESIDENT FEDERAL POLICY)
  • JANE KNIGHT (SR VICE PRESIDENT MEMBER RELATIONS)
  • ROSEMARY BLACKMON (FORMER EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • DONALD E WILLIAMSON (PRESIDENT/CEO): $849,002 total reported compensation
  • DANNE HOWARD (DEPUTY DIRECTOR/COO): $435,016 total reported compensation
  • WESLEY ASHMORE (VICE PRESIDENT OF FINANCE): $291,872 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

The organization promotes hospitals as the integrators of health care in their community and through advocacy, representation, education and service, to assist its members in effectively serving the health care needs of Alabama.

What it reported doing in 2024

Sponsored meetings: the Alabama hospital association conducts two major meetings for its membership each year. Both of these meetings provide timely educational programs qualifying for continuing education credit from executive, financial and clinical licensing entities. The annual meeting, with 99 hospital executives participating, covered the following topics: leading across generations in healthcare, building confidence: a practical roadmap to supply chain assurance, understanding and optimizing 340b, listening between the lines: reimagining trust in Alabama's hospitals, preparing for the unexpected: strengthening hospital readiness, healthcare 2025: the intertwined worlds of healthcare reimbursement and compliance, evaluating high performing physicians: a strategic compliance imperative, harnessing ai in healthcare: innovation-implementation and integrity as well as hospitals and the hill: what you need to know from Washington. The association recognized $342,505 in sponsorship revenue from this meeting and received $66,060 in registration income. The other major educational program conducted during the year is geared toward senior hospital management, trustee board members, legislators and other stake holders. This two-day meeting held in february 2025 had 112 hospital executives participating. Specific educational topics included healthcare under attack: navigating the cybersecurity landscape, unstoppable a presentation by alex weber, driving healthcare insights: exploring the vitality payer scorecard for Alabama's hospitals and keeping care close to home: addressing the rural hospital crisis in Alabama. The association recognized $55,267 in sponsorship revenue fees for this meeting. And received $29,390 in registration income.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 72
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 44
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 4th 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: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 98.7%; rating input score 99; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

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: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • 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: 1.9%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.93; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 3.8%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 19.9% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $849K · 26 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.3M reported
  • Consistency: 13 of 14 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 44 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 45 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Whistleblower policy not reported.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.