Christian Health Associates
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 920152088
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025
- Location
- Anchorage, AK, United States
- Phone
- (907) 522-7070
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Mental Health, Crisis Intervention N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,153,912
- Expenses
- $4,010,388
- Assets
- $11,042,452
- Liabilities
- $2,444,719
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DAVID FRAIN (CEO)
- BRENDA MOORE (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- MELINDA FREEMON (PROVIDER): $146,850 total reported compensation
- DAVID FRAIN (CEO): $108,192 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Nurture individuals and care givers through quality care, education and supportive services locally and globally. Provide services directly through its affiliates and by networking and collaborating with other organizations. Cultivate and develop service providers to their fullest potential in a Christian environment. Care for the whole person based on the interrelationship of the body, soul and spirit.
What it reported doing in 2025
Healthy smiles forever (hsf) - cha provides dental care for residents of long-term care facilities in Alaska. Its goal is to improve residents' overall health through dental screening, treatment and preventive services and coordination with other health care providers. Recovery - cornerstone recovery is the most recent addition to the clinic's services. It is an intensive outpatient, evidence-based, addiction recovery program. Anchorage school based health centers (sbhc) - cha works in partnership with the anchorage school district to provide care at anchorage middle and high schools to keep students healthy and in school. Alaska medical missions (amm) - cha is a staging area for donated medical supplies that are provided to those traveling to developing countries. Amm increases the level of health care in developing countries while decreasing medical waste in Alaska. Emergency cold weather shelter (ecws) - cha works in partnership with the local community to create an overflow emergency shelter option for unsheltered pregnant women and families with children while overlaying provider case management support to those families.
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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - 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: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 98.3%; rating input score 98
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 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: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.5%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.75; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.22; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.4%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -7.5% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 95% of revenue deployed · 98.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $3.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $147K · 8 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $278K reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 48/100.