Bellin College Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 391620530
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Green Bay, WI, USA
- Phone
- 9204336631
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $19,063,711
- Expenses
- $19,638,364
- Assets
- $54,420,112
- Liabilities
- $16,995,768
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
26 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHRIS WOLESKE (BOARD MEMBER/CEO-BELLIN (THRU 5/25))
- DR SCOTT RATHGABER (BOARD MEMBER (THRU 6/25)/BGHS CEO)
- DR CONNIE J BOERST (PRESIDENT/CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- CHRIS WOLESKE (BOARD MEMBER/CEO-BELLIN (THRU 5/25)): $1,926,448 total reported compensation
- DR SCOTT RATHGABER (BOARD MEMBER (THRU 6/25)/BGHS CEO): $1,396,550 total reported compensation
- JOHN CEELEN (BGHS CFO): $742,562 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Bellin college is dedicated to educating healthcare professionals through innovation, leadership, and service that promotes lifelong learning and excellence.
What it reported doing in 2024
Bellin college, inc. Is dedicated to educating and graduating healthcare professionals. The college is an independent, accredited, coeducational baccalaureate, masters, and doctorate degree granting institution. Our graduates are prepared to address the healthcare needs of a diverse, global society and its individuals, and are committed to advancing the profession. The college graduated 216 students during the year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 87% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 81% 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 69
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.4%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 81.4%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.45 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- 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: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.77; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.31; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.6%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.4% of revenue deployed · 81.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $16M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.9M · 26 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $964K reported
- Consistency: 39 of 39 current checks pass
- Schedules: 11 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 31 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 32/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.