Healthcare Leadership Council
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 363668803
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2024528700
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,287,181
- Expenses
- $5,896,094
- Assets
- $4,386,136
- Liabilities
- $4,291,121
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
24 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARIA GHAZAL (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- MARIA GHAZAL (PRESIDENT & CEO): $1,041,126 total reported compensation
- KATIE MAHONEY (EXECUTIVE VP AND CHIEF POLICY OFFICER): $469,684 total reported compensation
- DAVID WIERMANSKI (VP, FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION): $411,584 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Hlc operates as a business league in order to determine facts affecting the healthcare industry, develop policy recommendations, explain those policy recommendations to appropriate audiences, and to engage in other activities incidental to the foregoing purposes.
What it reported doing in 2024
The healthcare leadership council believes the private sector health care delivery system and its diverse components are the keys to providing more efficient, effective, higher quality patient-centered healthcare for all americans. The promotion of this belief is caried out by taking a comprehensive and inclusive approach by conducting a series of high-level meetings that involve a diverse range of stakeholders. These meetings are designed to foster a bi-partisan understanding of the american healthcare system. Our efforts extend to educating the nation's lawmakers, the media, the research community, and various business and community groups. By engaging with these key players, we aim to build a strong foundation of awareness and endorsement for our belief.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 90% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- 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: 65
- Accountability: 72
- Sustainability: 15
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 5th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -11.5%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.74; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.98; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 46.7%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -5.8% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 3 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $1M · 24 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $709K reported
- Consistency: 13 of 13 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 9 not reported.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.