Moses/Weitzman Health System

Legal name: Moses-weitzman Health System Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
850521893
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2021
Location
Middletown, CT, US
Phone
860-347-6971
Rating
82
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Management & Technical Assistance

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$32,577,110
Expenses
$32,196,120
Assets
$17,830,905
Liabilities
$17,159,794

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

19 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MARK MASSELLI (PRESIDENT & CEO)
  • LESLIE GIANELLI (VICE PRESIDENT OF COMMUNICATIONS)
  • JESSICA WELT (VICE PRESIDENT OF DEVELOPMENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • MARK MASSELLI (PRESIDENT & CEO): $944,454 total reported compensation
  • MEREDITH JOHNSON (COO): $367,098 total reported compensation
  • JASON PNIEWSKI (CFO): $351,415 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 Moses/Weitzman Health System is America's first health system dedicated to primary care for underserved populations. Working across the United States and beyond, Moses/Weitzman focuses on the people and communities most in need of high-quality primary care services.

What it reported doing in 2024

The weitzman institute (wi) established by chci in 2005 and now a program within mwhs, has become a nationally recognized research institute with funding from multiple private and public services. The wi disseminates the results of its research broadly through peer reviewed publications, national webinars, and trainings including an annual symposium featuring nationally prominent faculty. The wi also is home to chci's quality improvement and community health management work, leading the organization's performance improvement plan and providing guidance, data and support to clinical and operations staff in designing and carrying out quality improvement activities. The wi has an office in Washington, dc with a policy focus and is home to a health policy fellowship. The wi also continues to train providers all across the country currently in practice through its menu of "project echo" clinical education and support webinars in clinical areas of high complexity.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 87% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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

STRONG - 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 88
  • Transparency & Controls: 71
  • Accountability: 94
  • Sustainability: 27
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 98.8%; rating input score 99
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 1.2%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.55; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.96; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 9.3%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 32.4% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 60.9% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 57.8% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 6 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: 98.8% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 9 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $32.2M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $944K · 19 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.8M reported
  • Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, executive pay, and related organizations
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.