Center for Health Care Strategies Supporting Organization
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 311577333
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Hamilton, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 6095288400
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,671,542
- Expenses
- $2,596,437
- Assets
- $4,455,332
- Liabilities
- $237,414
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ALLISON HAMBLIN (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- ALLISON HAMBLIN (PRESIDENT & CEO): $395,898 total reported compensation
- PAULA FLEMING (VP, FINANCE): $177,575 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 supporting organization's mission is to provide financial assistance and support services to the center for health care strategies, inc.
What it reported doing in 2024
The center for health care strategies supporting organization is a policy design and implementation partner devoted to improving outcomes for people enrolled in medicaid. We work across sectors and disciplines to make more effective, efficient, and equitable care possible for millions of people in the u.s. Who face serious barriers to wellbeing, like poverty, and complex health and social needs. For more than 25 years chcs has collaborated with state medicaid and related health and human services agencies across the country to shape how health care services are designed, financed, and delivered. Founded in 1995, chcs receives resources from federal and state agencies, the nation's leading health care foundations, and corporate philanthropies committed to innovative solutions for publicly financed care.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 65
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 72
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 59.5%; rating input score 59
- Program expense ratio: 84.1%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: 29.3%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.72; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.4%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 59.5% of revenue deployed · 84.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 11 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $396K · 12 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 59/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 9 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.