Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 362658309
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Spring House, PA, USA
- Phone
- 3012981820
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,801,824
- Expenses
- $2,160,982
- Assets
- $2,560,361
- Liabilities
- $1,336,733
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Anthony Stanowski (President & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Anthony Stanowski (President & CEO): $478,149 total reported compensation
- Eric Brichto (Chief Accreditation Officer): $178,711 total reported compensation
- Melissa Sanseverino (Chief Financial Officer): $159,077 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
See Schedule O
What it reported doing in 2024
Accreditation:1. Servicing universities and programs in a voluntary peer review process designed to continuously improve academic education at the graduate level healthcare management education. At the end of FY 2025, CAHME accredited 160 programs at 106 universities, representing 8,935 full-time and 3,927 part-time students. CAHME facilitated approximately 81 of our 238 volunteers in conducting and reviewing 24 site visits during the current year.2. Establishing criteria for accreditation and tools for measuring excellence at the graduate level of healthcare management education. CAHME's volunteers reviewed and revised the existing criteria to reflect the diversity of practice settings that embrace healthcare management and require flexibility in the application of competency measurement and by extension student outcomes. 3. Making the findings of CAHME's activities available to the public.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 66% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 95% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Accountability: 92
- Sustainability: 21
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.5%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 70.7%; rating input score 71
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.87 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 87.4%; rating input score 87; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 25th 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: -19.9%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.18; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.52; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 37.8%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.1% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85.5% of revenue deployed · 70.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 16 of 17 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $1.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $478K · 19 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 31 of 32 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.