Blood Centers of the Pacific
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 941156555
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2015
- Forms available
- Form 990 2015
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4155676400
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Blood Supply Related
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $61,071,568
- Expenses
- $60,313,817
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2015. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
25 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- NORA V HIRSCHLER MD (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- J DANIEL CONNOR (TRUSTEE): $712,198 total reported compensation
- NORA V HIRSCHLER MD (PRESIDENT & CEO): $342,469 total reported compensation
- SUCHITRA PANDEY (MEDICAL DIRECTOR): $248,026 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2015. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Blood centers of the pacific exists to provide a safe and adequate supply of blood and blood products to its customers which are primarily hospitals located in n. California.
What it reported doing in 2015
Blood centers of the pacific provides blood, blood components and blood products needed for a wide range of communities and more than forty hospital and other medical institutions in san francisco and the northern California coast area.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 98% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 91
- Accountability: 96
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.6%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 89%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 99.9%; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.2%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.1%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.8% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.9% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -16.9% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 91.6% of revenue deployed · 89% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 15 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $53.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $712K · 25 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.3M reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2010 to 2015
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 11 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 11 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 32/100.
- Review — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization could not be resolved against the register, so the check is unfinished.