Health and Safety Council
Legal name: Houston Area Safety Council Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 760313275
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Pasadena, TX, US
- Phone
- (888) 955-SAFE
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Adult, Continuing Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $40,910,769
- Expenses
- $32,466,914
- Assets
- $124,406,927
- Liabilities
- $12,119,097
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
23 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Russell Klinegardner (HASC President and CEO)
- Cami Hysler (Senior Vice President of Strategy)
- Luis Aguilar (HASC CEO (Retired))
Highest reported compensation
- Luis Aguilar (HASC CEO (Retired)): $998,320 total reported compensation
- Russell Klinegardner (HASC President and CEO): $686,460 total reported compensation
- Thomas Hysler (Chief Medical Officer): $455,791 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 be the premier provider of safety, health, and environmental training and services, creating safer workplaces and communities.
What it reported doing in 2024
HASC services approximately 2,900 member companies and an additional 12,000 non-member companies. Operations and training: HASC provides health and safety training to industrial workers promoting increased knowledge and comprehension throughout the workforce. HASC offers approximately 4,500 unique training courses in safety, compliance, knowledge assessment, and skill improvement. HASC had 446,425 student visits in 2024 and completed 1,528,237 training units in hands-on instructor-led and computer-based safety training classes for industrial safety training, general safety, professional development and company and site-specific orientations. HASC also provides record management solutions for contractors and owner/operators to assist with compliance with OSHA and other regulations and mandates. HASC provides leadership, management, and safety management skills for supervisory and manager level personnel.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 93% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 48
- Transparency & Controls: 73
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 80
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 51%; rating input score 51
- Program expense ratio: 60.5%; rating input score 60
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 68.8%; rating input score 69; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 23rd 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: 20.6%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.83; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.9%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd 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: 51% of revenue deployed · 60.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 11 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $19.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $998K · 23 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $932K reported
- Consistency: 41 of 42 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 8 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.
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 51/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.