National Institute for Health Care Mgmt Research & Educational Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 522102558
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2022964426
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,490,325
- Expenses
- $2,996,086
- Assets
- $11,109,857
- Liabilities
- $715,382
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
21 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANDREW DREYFUS (PRESIDENT & CEO)
- AVIK ROY (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- CAITLIN ELLIS (DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH PRGMS): $427,609 total reported compensation
- AVIK ROY (PRESIDENT & CEO): $179,881 total reported compensation
- SHEREE CRUTE (DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS): $178,757 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To conduct research, educational forums, discussion groups &distribute educational materials on effective and innovative practicesdesigned to educate and stimulate discussion amoung the public, government officials, and health care decision makers on management practices designed to improve the health care system and the efficient delivery of medical services to the american public.
What it reported doing in 2025
Nihcm grants program: awarded grants for investigator-initiated research with potential to inform improvements to the u.s. Health care system by advancing the existing knowledge base in the areas of health care financing, delivery, management and/or policy. Awarded additional grants to journalists to provide funding for health reporting, educational opportunities for health care reporters, and public engagement campaigns for health-related documentary films.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 90% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 48% for direct work, and 52% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 88.4%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 73.8%; rating input score 74; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- 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: -20.3%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.71; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 21.2%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 88.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $2.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $428K · 21 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 30 of 31 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 43 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 42 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Whistleblower policy not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 56/100.