Medical Research Analytics and Informatics Alliance
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 453007467
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 3129241447
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Health, General and Financing
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $371,208
- Expenses
- $311,317
- Assets
- $172,471
- Liabilities
- $667
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- WILLIAM TRICK (SECRETARY): $4,125 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The corporation is organized and operated exclusively for scientific and educational purposes; to serve as the data management situs for multi- center research projects; to connect healthcare institutions with public health entities for the purpose of reporting notifiable diseases and patient safety quality measures; to apply rules to standardized aggregated electronic medical records for public health and research activities; to host websites for researchers and public health agencies; to develop innovative tools for use in the science of informatics, including open source and licensable software and software methodologies; to provide data services including data mapping and normalization, data analysis, public health data best practices and guidance, honest identity exchange, and data stewardship. The corporation facilitates and convenes collaborative efforts to advance public health informatics, and data-driven health research.
What it reported doing in 2024
Mraia strives to serve healthcare facilities and public health agencies through secure data aggregation, data transformation, and transmission by providing interface and transformation engines certified for state 1 and state 2 meaningful use requirements. Mraia also supports reporting to public health agencies for immunization history, syndromic surveillance, and electronic laboratory reporting. Data hosting and call center functionality is also provided for research and quality improvement activities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.1%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 80%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- 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: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 16.1%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.55; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.3%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -28.5% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -28.4% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -29.8% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 67.1% of revenue deployed · 80% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $249K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $4K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 36/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 51/100.