French Hospital Medical Center Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 203256125
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 8055426496
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,689,063
- Expenses
- $5,073,266
- Assets
- $34,041,130
- Liabilities
- $2,691,414
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
25 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SUE ANDERSEN (EX-OFFICIO BOARD MEMBER/ CEO)
- PATRICK CASTER (FORMER OFFICER (PRESIDENT))
Highest reported compensation
- NANCY BUSSANI (FORMER OFFICER (EVP, CPO)): $1,583,128 total reported compensation
- SUE ANDERSEN (EX-OFFICIO BOARD MEMBER/ CEO): $1,172,293 total reported compensation
- PATRICK CASTER (FORMER OFFICER (PRESIDENT)): $795,908 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
French hospital medical center foundation exists to support the values of dignity community care, dba french hospital medical center. The foundation is responsible for the receipt, maintenance, and transfer of money and property for the benefit of the hospital. Foundation support allows the hospital to further its mission world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.
What it reported doing in 2024
The foundation is an irc sec 509(a)(3) type i supporting organization to dignity community care, dba french hospital medical center (hospital). As a supporting organization, the foundation operates exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the function of, or to carry out the purposes of the hospital which include making payments directly to the beneficiary organization.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 70% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- 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. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 78
- Sustainability: 74
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.7%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 73.3%; rating input score 73
- Fundraising efficiency: $9.86 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 17th 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 24.2%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.71; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.3% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 63.7% of revenue deployed · 73.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 18 of 21 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.6M · 25 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 335 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 37/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 30/100.