Center for Health Care Strategies Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 223375015
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Hamilton, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 6095288400
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $11,574,666
- Expenses
- $12,363,722
- Assets
- $25,136,231
- Liabilities
- $7,442,262
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ALLISON HAMBLIN (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- ALLISON HAMBLIN (PRESIDENT & CEO): $395,898 total reported compensation
- PATRICIA MCGINNIS (EXECUTIVE VP, CHIEF PROGRAM OFFICER): $326,009 total reported compensation
- MARK LARSON (SENIOR VP, LEADERSHIP & CAP BUILDING): $276,579 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Chcs aims to strengthen the u.s. Health care system to ensure better, more equitable outcomes, particularly for people served by medicaid. Its work is organized under three priorities: integrating services for people with complex needs, delivery system and payment reform, and leadership and capacity building.
What it reported doing in 2024
Integrating services for people with complex needs: chcs supports practical and cost-effective solutions to ensure that medicaid beneficiaries with complex physical, behavioral, and social service needs are served by person-centered systems of care. Through direct technical assistance, collaborative learning forums, and pilot demonstrations, we work with the federal government, multiple state agencies, health plans, providers, and consumer organizations to promote better ways to organize, finance, and deliver care.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 80% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.2%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 83.9%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 23rd 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: -6.8%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.03; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.3; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14.9%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.5% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 90.2% of revenue deployed · 83.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 11 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $10.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $396K · 17 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $166K reported
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 16 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 6 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.