Federation of American Hospitals

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
136226549
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Washington, DC, USA
Phone
2026241500
Rating confidence
Limited

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$19,413,406
Expenses
$19,800,577
Assets
$12,733,801
Liabilities
$9,466,199

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

19 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CHARLES KAHN III (PRESIDENT)
  • CHARLENE K MACDONALD (EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT)
  • KATHLEEN TENOEVER (SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT)
  • DONALD L MAY (EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT)
  • ALYSSA KEEFE (SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT)
  • REBECCA LIRA (SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • CHARLES KAHN III (PRESIDENT): $2,514,878 total reported compensation
  • CHARLENE K MACDONALD (EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT): $815,781 total reported compensation
  • KATHLEEN TENOEVER (SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT): $748,800 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The federation of american hospitals was established for the purpose of representing tax-paying hospitals and health care systems to advance public policy, ensuring patients and communities have access to high-quality and affordable health care.

What it reported doing in 2025

Membership services: by far our largest expense group, this category, among other things, encompasses the expenditures for the infrastructure for our federal advocacy efforts, including employee compensation and benefit costs, and consulting contracts with outside lobbyists and other consultants. Our accomplishments have been to help facilitate optimal healthcare policies for hospitals and the patients they serve on certain key issues and to keep the federation well positioned for effective advocacy on other issues of importance to our membership, both before congress and the administration.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 98% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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: 90
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 14
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 9th 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: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 95.2%; rating input score 95; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -2%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.64; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.74; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 36.6%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 15th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $2.5M · 19 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2.3M reported
  • Consistency: 14 of 15 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 15 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 8 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.