CCHS Network Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 223634814
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2016, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9085076844
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $349,206
- Expenses
- $295,379
- Assets
- $1,450,657
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MELINDA RICCITELLI PHD (President)
- REBECCA MARTINE MSN (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- MELINDA RICCITELLI PHD (President)
- REBECCA MARTINE MSN (Vice President)
- DESIREE COUGLE (Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The CCHS family network's mission is to promote communication across physician/patient communities in the United States and around the world. The aim of the organization is to inform families about resources and research without prejudice or predisposition toward any particular provider, technology, treatment strategy, research team or medical practitioner. They have a multi-focused mission of education and support for our families and CCHS patients, inter-family and family-physician communication, and supporting and facilitating CCHS research.
What it reported doing in 2025
During 2025 the organization awarded 3 research project grants for CCHS researchers.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 90% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 89% of its reported program spending out as grants.
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 a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 54
- Transparency & Controls: 73
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 71
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 48.5%; rating input score 48
- Program expense ratio: 50.6%; rating input score 51
- Fundraising efficiency: $282.7 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15.4%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.91; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17.4% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.1% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 48.5% of revenue deployed · 50.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 9 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $149K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 24 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and grants
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 48/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 51/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 7 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Independent members within voting members did not reconcile in the filed values.