Health Quality Partners

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
233052666
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Doylestown, PA, USA
Phone
2678801733
Rating
57
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Alliance/Advocacy Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,078,141
Expenses
$1,871,031
Assets
$896,577
Liabilities
$617,764

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • KENNETH D COBURN MD DRPH FACP (PRESIDENT &)

Highest reported compensation

  • KENNETH D COBURN MD DRPH FACP (PRESIDENT &): $256,818 total reported compensation
  • SHERRY MARCANTONIO (SENIOR VICE): $219,827 total reported compensation
  • ROBERT CURRAN (SR DIR. ADMI): $172,324 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To improve the quality & experience of healthcare for patients, their families & healthcare providers through applied research and design of new systems of advanced preventive care that improve population health outcomes, enhance patient & provider experiences, and reduce health care costs.

What it reported doing in 2024

Replication consultancy in 2025, health quality partners (hqp) continued advancing its mission by supporting the adaptation, replication, and management of the advanced preventive care (apc) model for at-risk older adults living with chronic illness. This work ensures that the proven effectiveness of hqp's model can be intentionally adapted to meet the needs of diverse healthcare settings while maintaining the high standards and outcomes achieved by the model's innovators. Hqp's replication systems consultancy provides organizations with comprehensive support that offers subject matter expertise, leadership and management mentorship, coaching, and technical assistance throughout every stage of implementation. Through these partnerships, hqp helps healthcare teams adopt the apc model with fidelity, ensuring consistent quality and measurable results. Since the launch of hqp's replication partnerships with early adopter organizations, more than 2,000 at-risk older adults have benefited from the apc model of care. Partner organizations continue to report exceptional levels of participant engagement, high satisfaction among both patients and providers, and meaningful improvements in health outcomes and lower costs. In 2025, hqp also continued with upgrades to its spero platform - the purpose-built, web-based system that serves as the central hub for program management, implementation fidelity, and performance monitoring. The enhanced spero platform continues to provide an essential foundation for supporting teams replicating apc - worldwide.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 99% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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

MIXED - 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 the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 61
  • Transparency & Controls: 39
  • Accountability: 88
  • Sustainability: 45
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 66.2%; rating input score 66
  • Program expense ratio: 74.4%; rating input score 74
  • Fundraising efficiency: $0 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 0; 0th 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: Scored; rating input score 0
  • Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 9 of 9 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: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 10%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.48; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.69; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 1.4%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -5% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -2.3% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 66.2% of revenue deployed · 74.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 10 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.4M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $257K · 13 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes foreign activity and executive pay
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.