Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 391500075
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Milwaukee, WI, USA
- Phone
- 4142665420
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $143,502,335
- Expenses
- $47,882,552
- Assets
- $1,715,742,565
- Liabilities
- $161,381,184
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
52 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARGARET TROYTHROUGH AUG 2024 (DIRECTOR/PRESIDENT & CEO CHHS)
- GIL PERIBEGINNING AUG 2024 (DIRECTOR/PRESIDENT & CEO CHHS)
Highest reported compensation
- MARGARET TROYTHROUGH AUG 2024 (DIRECTOR/PRESIDENT & CEO CHHS): $2,658,331 total reported compensation
- MARC CADIEUX (TREASURER/SVP & CFO): $1,272,574 total reported compensation
- MARGARET NELSON (DIRECTOR/PRES CHWF & SVP CHHS): $958,352 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Children's hospital of Wisconsin foundation, inc. Is a 501(c)(3) organization that exists to fundraise for children's hospital and health system, inc. And its not-for-profit affiliates including children's hospital of Wisconsin, inc., children's medical group, inc., children's service society of Wisconsin, and children's specialty group, inc.
What it reported doing in 2024
In collaboration with children's hospital of Wisconsin, inc. ("chw or "the hospital") and its affiliates, children's hospital of Wisconsin foundation, inc. ("chwf or "the foundation") raises funds to support free or below-cost community programs such as health education, child abuse prevention, parenting education and injury prevention programs. Funding also supports school based health centers in milwaukee schools, primary care clinics in underserved areas, and supports social services provided to Wisconsin children and families by children's service society of Wisconsin.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 60
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 86
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74.5%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 59.6%; rating input score 60
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.1 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th 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: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 90%; rating input score 90; 38th 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: 66.6%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 35.83; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.6%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.2% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 74.5% of revenue deployed · 59.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 36 of 40 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $28.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $2.7M · 52 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $6.1M reported
- Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
- Schedules: 11 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 13 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 13 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 11/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.