Driscoll Children’s Health Plan
Legal name: Driscoll Children's Health Plan
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 742838488
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Corpus Christi, TX, USA
- Phone
- 3616946432
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Health, General and Financing
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,206,774,198
- Expenses
- $1,240,968,463
- Assets
- $436,027,839
- Liabilities
- $231,552,856
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JAMES SMITH (President & Chief Executive Officer)
- MARY D PETERSON MD (FORMER PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- MARY D PETERSON MD (FORMER PRESIDENT): $2,429,480 total reported compensation
- ERIC HAMON (BOARD MEMBER/SECRETARY): $2,221,293 total reported compensation
- JAMES SMITH (President & Chief Executive Officer): $818,726 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Committed to providing efficient, cost-effective, quality care through a dedicated and compassionate health care team & respectful collaboration with its provider network.
What it reported doing in 2024
See schedule o.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 99% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 59
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.4%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 92.8%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 12th 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: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 31st 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: Pass
- 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: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2.8%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.35; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.53; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.1%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.1% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.1% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.6% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 95.4% of revenue deployed · 92.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 6 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.2B in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $2.4M · 18 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $14M reported
- Consistency: 34 of 36 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: 6 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Fund balance restriction sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.