Catholic Health Association of the United States

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
430653271
IRS 990 coverage
2019–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
Location
St Louis, MO, USA
Phone
3144272500
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$37,042,973
Expenses
$27,680,363
Assets
$76,267,622
Liabilities
$8,437,641

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

Leadership & pay

35 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • SISTERS OF MERCY FOR SR HADDAD (PRESIDENT & CEO)
  • CATHERINE A HURLEY ESQ (VICE PRESIDENT, GEN. COUNS/COMP OFF.)

Highest reported compensation

  • SISTERS OF MERCY FOR SR HADDAD (PRESIDENT & CEO): $1,555,851 total reported compensation
  • CATHERINE A HURLEY ESQ (VICE PRESIDENT, GEN. COUNS/COMP OFF.): $607,134 total reported compensation
  • BRIAN REARDON (VP, COMMUNICATIONS & MARKETING): $572,316 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Catholic Health Association of the United States (CHA) advances the Catholic health ministry of the United States by caring for people and communities, inspired by the gospel and grounded in its beliefs and values, and by empowering bold change to elevate human flourishing. Articles All Publications Catholic Health World Health Progress Matt Landeck, a catheterization lab coordinator at Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, New Hampshire, with his aunt, Cheryl Gagnon, and blessing him is Bishop Peter Libasci. View Catholic Health World Logo June 2026 Catholic Medical Center in New Hampshire starts workplace program to welcome new members into the church Unusual hospital-based initiative, backed by the diocese, meets staff where they are and supports faith exploration.

What it reported doing in 2024

Educational programs, services, and resources to enhance catholic health ministry: cha provided 34 virtual programs and events with 4,023 ministry and other attendees and 23 in-person programs and events with 627 ministry and other attendees. Programs and resources included: mission integration - educational programs and webinars to help catholic hospitals and other catholic providers sustain their commitment to the ideals, values and vision of health care as a ministry to persons in need. Ethics - often, difficult situations arise in the health care setting about how to live out our catholic faith and value commitments in concrete situations. Through consultations and educational programs and (continued on schedule o)resources, the ethics function seeks to aid its members in navigating the many complex ethical realities in health care today. Sponsorship - programs, services and resources to help sponsors and potential sponsors of catholic healthcare live out and better understand their roles with regard to promoting and assuring jesus' healing mission by guiding and overseeing a specific institutional ministry in a formal and public way. Leadership formation - provided programs and educational resources to assist ministry leaders in creating and stewarding organizational cultures that incarnate jesus' healing so that, through their leadership, cha member organizations will: help patients and families experience the healing presence of god; provide employees and staff the space to experience and participate in healing encounters; and improve the health of the communities they serve by working strategically to clarify and address the needs and assets of the community with special attention to those who are poor, vulnerable and underserved. Ministry identity assessment programs - in collaboration with the ministry, cha expanded its ministry identity assessment tools and developed an online interactive tool for completing assessments. 17 assessments, with 355 participants, were completed.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 93% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 49
  • Transparency & Controls: 93
  • Accountability: 98
  • Sustainability: 70
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 51.2%; rating input score 51
  • Program expense ratio: 62.3%; rating input score 62
  • Fundraising efficiency: $0 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 6 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Pass
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • 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: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 95.8%; rating input score 96; 29th 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: 25.3%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.76; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 22.3%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 51.2% of revenue deployed · 62.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 23 of 24 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $17.2M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $1.6M · 35 people listed · 6 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $3M reported
  • Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 12 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 51/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.