Henry Ford Health
Legal name: Henry Ford Health Genesys Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 383591148
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Detroit, MI, USA
- Phone
- 3138768714
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $567,620
- Expenses
- $823,110
- Assets
- $11,587,324
- Liabilities
- $818,950
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ROBERT G RINEY (PRESIDENT/CEO (START 10/2024))
- DOUGLAS JAMES APPLE MD (EX-OFFICIO/INTERIM CEO (END 9/2024))
Highest reported compensation
- ROBERT G RINEY (PRESIDENT/CEO (START 10/2024)): $7,081,174 total reported compensation
- ROBIN S DAMSCHRODER (TREASURER/CFO (START 10/2024)): $3,410,191 total reported compensation
- DOUGLAS JAMES APPLE MD (EX-OFFICIO/INTERIM CEO (END 9/2024)): $1,561,918 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Henry Ford Health is committed to improving people’s lives through world-class healthcare close to home. The Development Office is the fundraising arm for all of Henry Ford Health, including system programs, service lines and local initiatives. Now including the Henry Ford Rochester, Genesys, Providence and St. John Foundations, the Development Office assures each gift supports the local or system initiative conveyed by each donor’s intention. Your generous donations to Henry Ford Health and our Foundations make a profound impact. As our organization grows and evolves, we ensure your donations will remain dedicated to the areas you select, directly supporting our patients and communities. Make a gift in support of our mission.
What it reported doing in 2024
Serving the community and building the future of health care - by working together, people change and improve the world around them. This happens every day at henry ford health genesys foundation as we generate and administer all charitable gifts for henry ford health genesys hospital. Henry ford health genesys foundation is a supporting foundation to henry ford health genesys hospital. As a private nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, it is responsible for generating and administering charitable gifts, grants, donations and events. All charitable gift income is directed to address a broad range of healthcare needs. It enables henry ford health genesys hospital to develop programs and services tailored to those served, and improve access to healthcare for those who are underserved.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 89% of its reported program spending out as grants.
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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 80.2%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.73 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 19th 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: 86.8%; rating input score 87; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 75%; rating input score 75; 16th 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: -45%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 14.08; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 37%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -6.8% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -8.2% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 8 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 80.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 12 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $660K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $7.1M · 17 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 16 of 17 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 410 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.