Chc Creating Healthier Communities
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 136167225
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Alexandria, VA, USA
- Phone
- 7035281007
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $17,382,624
- Expenses
- $19,528,598
- Assets
- $19,218,503
- Liabilities
- $10,934,075
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
38 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JEAN ACCIUS (PRESIDENT & CEO)
- KAREN TORGES THRU 8124 (VICE PRESIDENT, WORKPLACE INNOVATIONS & SOLUTIONS)
Highest reported compensation
- JEAN ACCIUS (PRESIDENT & CEO): $445,739 total reported compensation
- LIYAN YANG (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $247,209 total reported compensation
- VALERIE ROCHESTER (CHIEF EQUITY & IMPACT OFFICER): $245,835 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We envision a world where every person in every community has an opportunity to live their healthiest life.
What it reported doing in 2024
Chc: creating healthier communities partners with the combined federal campaign (cfc) and various private sector workplace giving campaigns to raise funds on behalf of its charity partners and other nonprofit organizations. As a founding partner of the cfc since its establishment in 1961, chc has played a central role in facilitating charitable contributions from federal employees. Since the inception of the cfc, chc has helped raise over $8.6 billion in pledges to support local, national, and international charities.through its workplace giving program, chc manages the end-to-end process of campaign participation for its charity partners. This includes: reviewing and providing quality assurance on campaign applications, collecting and processing pledge data and donor information, distributing payments and donor designations to participating charities, offering access to a secure partner portal for reporting and resource management.in addition to fundraising, chc supports volunteer engagement through a dedicated platform that connects campaigns and donors with service opportunities at partner organizations. Chc also facilitates giving through its purpose platform, an innovative digital solution that enables campaigns to raise funds and engage donors more effectively.program service expenses reflect the disbursement of funds to charity partners and the administrative costs directly associated with managing these distributions and campaign operations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 91% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 73% of its reported program spending out as grants.
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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 88
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 95.2%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: $56.73 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 90.2%; rating input score 90; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th 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: -12.3%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.98; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.57; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.8%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.4% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.5% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.3% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 95.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 27 of 27 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $18.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $446K · 38 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $176K reported
- Consistency: 35 of 36 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 197 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 187 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 8/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.