Chime
Legal name: College of Healthcare Information Management Executives
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 383040305
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Ann Arbor, MI, US
- Phone
- 1-734-665-0000
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $23,415,404
- Expenses
- $15,922,812
- Assets
- $27,873,460
- Liabilities
- $8,535,804
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
29 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RUSS BRANZELL (PRESIDENT & CEO)
- SUSAN ALDRICH (VICE PRESIDENT, EVENTS)
Highest reported compensation
- RUSS BRANZELL (PRESIDENT & CEO): $1,228,171 total reported compensation
- KEITH FRAIDENBURG (EVP CHIEF OPERATING & INNOVATION OFFICER): $812,546 total reported compensation
- EDWIN CZOPEK (EVP CHIEF FINANCE OFFICER): $535,417 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 serve the professional needs of chief information officers and other senior healthcare information technology leaders through education, collaboration, and advocacy.
What it reported doing in 2024
Trade shows - the chime fall forum is an annual conference for healthcare it leaders, focused on strategy, innovation, and collaboration. It's a premier event for cios and other senior digital health leaders to learn, network, and problem-solve. The forum features keynotes, peer networking, roundtable discussions, and vendor-partner engagement to support critical infrastructure and digital health decisions.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Limited
- Conducts field audits: Limited
- May suspend future funding: Limited
- Requires financial reports: Limited
- Conducts site visits: Limited
- Requires grant agreements: Limited
- May require repayment: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 32%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.75; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.31; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 28.8%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 12.6% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 71st 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: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 12 of 15 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.2M · 29 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $632K reported
- Consistency: 14 of 14 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 18 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 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.
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.