Choptank Community Health
Legal name: Choptank Community Health System Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 521116591
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Denton, MD, US
- Phone
- 410-479-4306
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Ambulatory Health Center, Community Clinic
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $43,833,353
- Expenses
- $37,010,766
- Assets
- $51,450,609
- Liabilities
- $10,919,987
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
22 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SARA RICH (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- CHRISTINA DROSTIN (PHYSICIAN): $282,661 total reported compensation
- GREGORY HOLMES (PHYSICIAN): $274,003 total reported compensation
- SARA RICH (PRESIDENT & CEO): $266,695 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide high-quality, comprehensive, and accessible health care to all residents of the Eastern Shore, regardless of their ability to pay.
What it reported doing in 2024
Primary health care services: delivery of healthcare to medically underserved community
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.1%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 85.4%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
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: 15.6%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.39; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.6%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.2% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 9 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 5 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 72.1% of revenue deployed · 85.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 16 of 16 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $31.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $283K · 22 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $408K reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 54/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 57/100.