Christian Healthcare Specialists
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 851514187
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Newaygo, MI, USA
- Phone
- (231) 707-2313
- Rating
- 59
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Health Treatment Facilities, Primarily Outpatient
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $373,241
- Expenses
- $535,427
- Assets
- $712,713
- Liabilities
- $1,526,177
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Mark Blocher (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Jeffrey Woo (TreasurerPhysician): $158,934 total reported compensation
- Mark Blocher (President): $117,356 total reported compensation
- Ted VanderKooi (Director): $104,425 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide affordable, high-quality surgical care in a patient-focused environment, free from the cost and hassles often associated with more expensive hospital-based care.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2024, Christian Healthcare Specialists provided 20 different advanced care procedures and outpatient surgeries to patients from across Michigan and nine different states. Services are provided by a team that includes a board certified general surgeon, a board certified anesthesiologist, several surgical RNs, and a surgical technologist. CHS provides a patient assistance program for low-income patients: however, the organizations regular fees are nearly 60% less than the average charged in hospital-owned facilities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
MIXED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 67
- Accountability: 28
- Sustainability: 17
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 63.9%; rating input score 64
- Fundraising efficiency: $0 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -43.5%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.33; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 2.14; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: 43.9% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 56.4% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -22.9% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 91% of revenue deployed · 63.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 4 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $342K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $159K · 4 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $104K reported
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay and related organizations
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 1/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.