Health Commons Project
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 833940028
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Sammamish, WA, USA
- Phone
- 4252467068
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Nonmonetary Support N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,956,553
- Expenses
- $3,023,072
- Assets
- $3,640,087
- Liabilities
- $7,557
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Robert Arnold (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Brian Blackorby (Manager): $207,731 total reported compensation
- Robert Arnold (Executive Director): $188,649 total reported compensation
- Celia McTigue (Program Manager): $170,688 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 Commons Project mission is to close health equity gaps in underinvested communities.
What it reported doing in 2024
In the last 12 months, Health Commons Project (HCP) continued to wind down its post pandemic work with Washington Department of Health (WADOH). Our final WADOH program supporting community health worker retraining ends mid year 2025. With the end of its WADOH work, HCP Leadership and Board invested in the development of two key initiatives. In 2024, HCP formally launched its Student Health Hub program with Renton and Seattle School Districts and completed the acquisition of Washington State's Health Information Exchange, OneHealthPort on 12/31/24. The Student Health Hub and OneHealthPort services allow HCP to expand its service reach to approximately 32,000 health and social service providers across Washington State. These new services IT compliance programs enable HCP to exchange data safely and securely between schools, hospitals, fire departments, and community-based organizations with city, county, and state partners to build coordinated health networks where every door leads to the right care. Our combined goal is to prevent chronic disease, protecting against pandemics, and reducing maternal and infant mortality across our state.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 93% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 62% for direct work, and 38% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 73.9%; rating input score 74
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 98.9%; rating input score 99; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -54.5%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.2; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 35.4%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 19.5% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 28.9% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 73.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $208K · 10 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $271K reported
- Consistency: 27 of 28 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 20 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 13 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.