California Health Care Foundation
Legal name: California Health Foundation and Trust
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 941498697
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Sacramento, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9165527629
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $45,957,239
- Expenses
- $56,884,286
- Assets
- $140,241,059
- Liabilities
- $9,145,454
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CARMELA COYLE (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- CARMELA COYLE (PRESIDENT): $1,708,251 total reported compensation
- JENNIFER M NEWMAN (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $567,430 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 California Health Care Foundation helps Californians with low incomes get the health care they need. Learning is integral to the team’s work and is done in deep collaboration with CHCF’s grantmaking staff. Our organizational structure reflects this philosophy: L&I team members report to the senior vice president of programs and strategy, and also maintain their own grantmaking portfolios. Reflection and learning are integral to having impact CHCF is committed to organizational learning, to sharing successes and failures, both internally and externally, and to engaging in and contributing to field-wide learning. The L&I team supports and creates space for reflection and learning to happen at CHCF.
What it reported doing in 2024
2022-2024 hospital grant programs: statewide effort to assist hospitals and hospital health systems in California to continue to provide access to care for uninsured and underinsured people, preserve physical access to care, and provide community services such as mental health access, wellness, and prevention programs. The program recovers $5.2 billion of the $8.8 billion shortfall annually in medi-cal payments.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 93% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 86
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 99.9%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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: 99.9%; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: -23.8%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.47; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.6%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4.9% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -7.3% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 99.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 12 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $56.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.7M · 13 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $3.7M reported
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 17 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 23 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.