Center for Global Health Innovation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
581849665
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2023
Forms available
Form 990 2023, Form 990-T 2020
Location
Atlanta, GA, USA
Phone
4042210617
Rating
86
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,692,294
Expenses
$3,769,337
Assets
$33,601,790
Liabilities
$38,483,713

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

19 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • MARIA THACKER GOETHE (DIRECTOR): $130,906 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The center for global health innovation brings together diverse global health, health technology, and life sciences entities to collaborate, innovate and activate solutions to enhance human health outcomes around the world. At its core, cghi will orchestrate programs that promote crossdiscipline cooperation to strengthen capabilities, accelerate problem solving, and respond to global health crises.

What it reported doing in 2023

Education and workforce development - cghi carries out initiatives in education and workforce development to accelerate the alignment of Georgia's current and future workforce with the needs of its life sciences industry. The workforce development programming focuses on connecting education and career pathway development with Georgia's work ready program and places it in an industry-focused context led by an industry network. Activities include career awareness programs, curricula development and implementation, teacher trainings, a mentoring program, and solutions design and execution. With support from the state of Georgia, cghi launched the first teacher training program in the country specific to stem education, serving 30 counties in rural Georgia. 233 teachers were trained, impacting nearly 38,000 students (75% in title 1 schools). Cghi also operates an equipment depot to support stem education by providing free stem supplies and equipment to classrooms throughout the state, with over $280,000 of supplies and equipment donated in 2021 for distribution to teachers and schools. Cghi is leading an initiative funded by nsf to operate and scale a biotechnician assistant credentialing exam (bace) program. Global health programming is focused on education and community awareness of the women in global health partners and their activities, supporting and advising the women in global health chapter, and the becoming better ancestors project, which focuses on lessons learned from past successes in disease eradication and how society can better respond to future health crises. This initiative will result in an educational video series to be globally distributed in 2022.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 84
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 36
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 80.7%; rating input score 81
  • Fundraising efficiency: $5.07 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • 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: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -40%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 8.91; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.15; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 3.5%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 27.1% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 19.1% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 35.9% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 80.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 19 of 19 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $3M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $131K · 19 people listed
  • Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2010 to 2023
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 17/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.