Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Info Mgmt Education

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
274536530
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2020
Location
Chicago, IL, USA
Phone
3122353255
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Professional Societies, Associations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,019,980
Expenses
$2,049,795
Assets
$3,413,361
Liabilities
$1,132,255

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

17 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ANGELA KENNEDY (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)

Highest reported compensation

  • ANGELA KENNEDY (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $280,567 total reported compensation
  • JAYNE KOSIK (SENIOR DIRECTOR OF BUSINES): $137,782 total reported compensation
  • GEORGE PAYAN (ACCREDITATION OPERATIONS M): $134,843 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Cahiim's mission is to provide innovative leadership that drives enhanced workforce competence by ensuring educational excellence. Cahiim serves the public interest in advancing the value of health informatics and health information management through quality education by: establishing and enforcing accreditation standards; recognizing programs that meet the standards; assessing student achievement; respecting educational innovation and diversity; recognizing academic institutions' autonomy; emphasizing the principle of volunteerism and peer-review; embracing a culture of continuous quality improvement.

What it reported doing in 2024

Annual accreditation fees for the over 350 programs in the health informatics and health information management professions in the united states and puerto rico. Its accreditation decisions are relied upon by (a) national certification boards, (b) healthcare related employers, (c) students, and (d) the public. Cahiim provides a structured framework for academic institutions ensuring sound educational practices, which involve faculty and staff in a comprehensive evaluation plan for the academic program. It provide the public outcomes information about the academic program by a peer review organization whose function is to assess quality and content of the educational experience with entry-level competencie for the profession and the public and supports the process of professional certification by providing reasonable assurance of quality educational preparation and learning outcomes. Cahiim also provides assurance that graduates of a program accredited by cahiim have achieved an acceptable level of quality.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 84% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 76
  • Transparency & Controls: 84
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 34
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 85.3%; rating input score 85
  • Program expense ratio: 85.8%; rating input score 86
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Pass
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • 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; 63rd 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: 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: -1.5%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.67; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.33; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 33.5%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 10.6% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 85.3% of revenue deployed · 85.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.8M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $281K · 17 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.