Nautilus Health Institute
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 815206100
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $190,254
- Expenses
- $117,186
- Assets
- $84,345
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- David Chase (President Board of Directors)
- Sean Schantzen (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- David Chase (President Board of Directors)
- Sean Schantzen (Executive Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of Nautilus Health Institute Nautilus is to redirect Americas healthcare resources toward community wellbeing by democratizing the proven tools standards and technology that enable patients employers and local systems to optimize health outcomes and control costs.
What it reported doing in 2025
We envision an America where healthcare dollars effectively serve community wellbeing where employers and unions become engines of health transformation and where excellence in health plans is accessible to all. By providing open-source infrastructure and standards were transforming an inefficient system into one that prioritizes patient outcomes over institutional profit margins.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 59%; rating input score 59
- Program expense ratio: 95.4%; rating input score 95
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 38.4%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.72; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.8% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 59% of revenue deployed · 95.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $112K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.