Council for Quality Respiratory Care
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 205120363
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 7274318340
- Rating
- 58
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Lung Disease
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $676,963
- Expenses
- $782,952
- Assets
- $707,176
- Liabilities
- $93,289
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
People named in this filing
- MICHAEL RIDER-RESMED (SECRETARY)
- PERRY BERNOCCHI-APRIA HEALTHCARE (TREASURER)
- ROBIN MENCHEN-ROTECH HEALTHCARE (CHAIR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The purpose for which the corporation is formed is to promote social welfare and improve the health and well being of patients who have acute and chronic pulmonary issues and are in need of in-home services by, among other things, (i) educating legislators, government officials and the general public about the needs of persons who receive in-home services for acute and chronic pulmonary issues, (ii) advocating for changes in law and administrative policies relating to in-home services for persons with acute and chronic pulmonary issues, and (iii) conducting analysis and research on issues affecting persons receiving or capable of receiving in-home services for acute and chronic pulmonary issues.
What it reported doing in 2025
The cqrc's primary activities are to promote quality home respiratory therapy care and adequate reimbursement for these services in the medicare program. This includes developing outreach materials to educate patients, physicians, and others interested in federal health policies that affect the medicare home respiratory therapy benefit. The activities also include direct lobbying, outreach to the centers for medicare and medicaid services (cms), and the white house. These efforts require legal, political, and advocacy resources, as well as analysis of government and private sector data. Additionally, the cqrc developed outreach materials to educate patients, physicians, and others interested in federal health care policies that affect the medicare home oxygen therapy benefits. The cqrc also continued to monitor and discuss federal policies related to the medicare home oxygen benefit.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 19
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 22.2%; rating input score 22
- Program expense ratio: 19.2%; rating input score 19
- 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -15.7%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.9; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.4% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 22.2% of revenue deployed · 19.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $150K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $642K reported
- Consistency: 16 of 16 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2009 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 22/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 19/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.