Health Quality Partners
Legal name: Health Quality Partners of Southern California
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 330759107
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Phone
- 619-542-4300
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $205,707,381
- Expenses
- $198,569,118
- Assets
- $62,887,798
- Liabilities
- $53,397,317
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- HENRY TUTTLE (CEO)
- SPARKLE BARNES (PRESIDENT, CNECT & CHIEF STRAT. OFF.)
- RASAUN ROBINSON (VICE PRESIDENT OF SALES)
Highest reported compensation
- HENRY TUTTLE (CEO): $601,404 total reported compensation
- SPARKLE BARNES (PRESIDENT, CNECT & CHIEF STRAT. OFF.): $440,373 total reported compensation
- AMANDA SIMMONS (EVP & CHIEF MANAG. CARE RISK OFFICER): $404,897 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 Quality Partners serves as the premier resource for health centers in Southern California in their quest to advance efficiency, value, and excellence in primary care. A nonprofit subsidiary of Health Center Partners, Health Quality Partners (HQP) helps improve health outcomes by implementing progressive and collaborative programs to support community health centers in caring for the safety-net population. Health Quality Partners' staff implement programs through the successful administration of grant-funded programs. Health Quality Partners' programs improve access to care, health outcomes and operational efficiencies. Mission Statement To offer an array of programs that promote access to and improve the quality of services provided by our member health centers and the health of the communities they serve.
What it reported doing in 2024
See schedule omember services provides technical assistance and training to health centers in the southern California region. Hqp provides emergency preparedness and response training to health centers primarily in southern California, however we have opened some trainings to health centers located in other geographic areas. Hqp provides managed care services including managed care operations/contracting, education on managed care reform and managed care policy issues, and strategic partnership development. Two grant funded programs from kaiser permanente via the California community foundation largely supported technical assistance and training efforts.hqp administers the primary care and behavioral health integration program. 410 uninsured adults accessed behavioral health services through this program. Services included 1,062 therapy visits, peer support, medication, and/or medication management services. 17% of patients enrolled in health insurance within the first four months of services. Same services as prior year with fewer participating health centers.in fy 24-25, providers participating in the oral health initiative (ohi) provided care coordination services to 3,669 high-risk children aged 0-5. Hqp administered the program's treatment fund that provided $54,325 to health centers providing treatment to uninsured children. Seven health centers participated in the senior oral health program, funded by the delta dental community foundation. The number of seniors receiving oral health care increased quarter over quarter. In fy24-25, seniors had a total of 13,565 oral health visits.hqp operated the health center controlled network. The purpose was to leverage health information technology (it) and data to enhance clinical quality, patient-centered care, and provider well-being. Key activities included improving data management, supporting telehealth and digital health tools, strengthening cybersecurity, and implementing digital health tools for patient engagement. The funding aimed to help health centers improve operational and clinical practices, ultimately leading to better health outcomes for their communities.coverage programs: health quality partners operated 3 distinct health coverage enrollment programs in fy 24-25. Six participating health centers in the covered California navigator program achieved 3,295 effectuated enrollments into a covered California qualified health plan. Eight participating health centers in the dhcs medi-cal navigator program achieved a total of 10,398 new medi-cal enrollments and 10,078 medi-cal renewals over a period of 15 months. Six participating health centers in the connecting kids to coverage (ckc) program funded by cms achieved 2,597 new medi-cal enrollments and 2,327 medi-cal renewals for children from 0-18 years old.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 95% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 98.4%; rating input score 98
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.5%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.32; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.85; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.1%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 34.7% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 26.7% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 29.5% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 95% of revenue deployed · 98.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $195.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $601K · 20 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: 6 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: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 50/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.