Medical Staff of Alta Bates Medical Center

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
273319849
IRS 990 coverage
2014–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Berkeley, CA, USA
Phone
5102041417
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues

Reported finances

Revenue
$943,552
Expenses
$891,943
Assets
$838,312
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DR RITA KWAN-FEINBERG (PRESIDENT)
  • DR STEVEN KANG (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • DR CHARU PURI (PAST PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • DR RITA KWAN-FEINBERG (PRESIDENT): $183,000 total reported compensation
  • DR STEVEN KANG (VICE PRESIDENT): $45,000 total reported compensation
  • DR CHARU PURI (PAST PRESIDENT): $30,000 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

A. To serve as the primary means for accountability to the board of directors for the appropriateness of the professional performance and ethical conduct of its members and to strive toward the continual upgrading of the quality of patient care delivered in the hospital consistent with the recognized standard of professional care and resources available locally.b. To be the formal organizational structure through which the benefits of membership in the medical staff may be obtained by individual practitioners and the obligations of staff membership are fulfilled; c. To provide an organizational structure that allows ongoing review of patient care practices and accounts for the quality and appropriateness of services rendered by all medical staff members; d. To provide the means through which the medical staff may participate in the hospital's policy-making and planning processes.

What it reported doing in 2025

Application fees and membership dues, stipends to doctors for administrative services rendered on behalf of the med staff organization.

Operating model

Revenue model
Membership-supported. 100% 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: 45
  • Accountability: 24
  • Sustainability: 45
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 75%; rating input score 75; 0th 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: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 1.9%; rating input score 2; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
    • 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: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 5.5%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.94; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 31.2%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9.7% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 26 of 1401 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $892K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $183K · 4 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes executive pay
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 2/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grants require schedule f did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.