SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University

Legal name: Health Science Center at Brooklyn Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
112418771
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Phone
7182703148
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$340,304,876
Expenses
$339,168,253
Assets
$312,636,563
Liabilities
$124,346,894

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

Leadership & pay

23 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • WAYNE J RILEY MD MPH MBA MACP (EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT)
  • LUTHER T CLARK MD (PRESIDENT)
  • JOSEPH LENTOL (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • MAUREEN WALLEY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, STAFFCO)

Highest reported compensation

  • ASHAN KHAN (PHYSICIAN): $1,176,014 total reported compensation
  • STEVEN SOBEY (PHYSICIAN): $804,504 total reported compensation
  • ROBERT MUNKELWITZ (PHYSICIAN): $803,365 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 provide outstanding education of physicians, scientists, nurses and other healthcare professionals. To advance knowledge through cutting edge research and translate it into practice. To care for and improve the lives of our globally diverse communities. To foster an environment that embraces cultural diversity.

What it reported doing in 2024

The health science center at brooklyn foundation holds several medical and scientific symposiums and conferences on campus. These conferences are open to the public as well as to members of the medical and scientific community. In addition, the foundation provides support to the faculty that are invited as speakers for symposiums and conferences that are held off-campus and for professional meetings. The foundation also provides support for professional programs and exams that will further the development of the faculty. The foundation provides support to several community, department, and city-wide programs. Some of those programs are brooklyn free clinic, the children's center at brooklyn, infant and child learning center, and the arthur ashe institute.

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.
  • 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 89
  • Transparency & Controls: 69
  • Accountability: 69
  • Sustainability: 38
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 99.8%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 98.8%; rating input score 99
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 28th 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; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 62.5%; rating input score 62; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
    • 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: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 0.3%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.92; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.4; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.1%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 19.5% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 11.9% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
  • Where the money goes: 99.8% of revenue deployed · 98.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 8 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $335.1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $1.2M · 23 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.6M reported
  • Consistency: 32 of 33 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 8 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: 13 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 33/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 54/100.