Health Action Council
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 341449029
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Independence, OH, USA
- Phone
- 2163282200
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,944,080
- Expenses
- $4,587,067
- Assets
- $9,958,962
- Liabilities
- $1,133,190
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PATTY STARR (PRESIDENT/CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- PATTY STARR (PRESIDENT/CEO): $383,181 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Health action council (hac) is a member-driven, not-for-profit 501(c)(6) organization that enhances human and economic health through thought leadership, innovative services, and collaboration. It provides value to its members by (continued on schedule o)facilitating projects that improve quality and moderate the cost of healthcare purchased by its members for their employees, dependents, and retirees. Hac also collaborates with key stakeholders - health plans, physicians, hospitals and, pharmaceutical industry - to improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare in the community.
What it reported doing in 2024
Managed programs to support effective and cost efficient employer-provided health care benefits and health improvements. Held educational seminars on healthcare benefit issues, wellness, and how to support and transform to a culture of health. Communicated with members about healthcare benefit industry trends and issues. Provided members with access to several key national organizations to link employers to national healthcare benefit cost, trends, quality initiatives, and policy issues.
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: 95
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 7.2%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.17; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.4%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 150% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.6% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $383K · 8 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $414K reported
- Consistency: 12 of 12 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 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.
- 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 36/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 56/100.