Center for Healthcare Decisions Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
680441958
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2016–2016
Forms available
Form 990 2015, Form 990-EZ 2016
Location
Sacramento, CA, USA
Phone
9163335046
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Public Health Program (Includes General Health and Wellness Promotion Services)

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$180,469
Expenses
$286,484
Assets
$229,516
Liabilities
$1,300

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2016. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MURRAY ROSS PHD (President)
  • LORI CAPPELLO DANGBERG (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • PAT POWERS (Executive Direc)
  • GLENNAH TROCHET MD (MEMBER)
  • MURRAY ROSS PHD (President)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2016. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Provide a nonpartisan forum for civic education about individual and societal health care issues and to serve as a resource for building public participation in improving health care policy and practice.

What it reported doing in 2016

The Center for Healthcare Decision's Programs center around exploring with the public complex issues about health care policy and practice. They conduct independent projects, as well those in partnership with other organizations. They identify individual and societal priorities related to the use of evidence in medical decisions; the fair allocation of finite health care resources; and coverage priorities when options exceed resources. The Center for Health Care Decisions communicates those views to health care and policy leaders, assists communities and states in implementing citizen engagement activities and provides an education exercise in priority-setting for health care and community leaders. For work in this arena, 125 people were served through discussion groups; 280 through presentations and more than 58,000 through electronic communications.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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 available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 91
  • Transparency & Controls: 75
  • Sustainability: 24
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 76%; rating input score 76

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -58.7%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.8; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 54.7%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -5% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -24.9% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 76% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $218K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is recorded as not currently operating in California.