North Coast Health Improvement and Information Network Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 274520226
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2014
- Location
- Eureka, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7074434563
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Health, General and Financing
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $768,632
- Expenses
- $921,150
- Assets
- $1,115,284
- Liabilities
- $52,500
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ROSEMARY DEN OUDEN (CEO)
- BRUCE KESSLER MD (President)
People named in this filing
- ROSEMARY DEN OUDEN (CEO)
- TERRY WILLIAMS (Director)
- SOFIA PEREIRA (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The first specific purpose of the organization is to provide the secure and appropriate sharing of electronic health and clinical data among diverse organizations facilitating access and retrieval of data for health care purposes, and to use that individual, aggregated and comparative clinical data to improve health outcomes for clinicians and citizens of humboldt county and northern California. The second specific purpose is to conduct care improvement projects (initiatives to improve outcomes, patient experience and patient safety), for clinicians and the citizens of humboldt county and northern California.
What it reported doing in 2024
North coast health improvement and information network (nchiin) continues to contract with local medical providers to provide electronic data interchange services.during this period, health care data transactions across the health information exchange (from data provider to nchiin into the electronic health records of the recipient) averaged over 16,527 a month.during this period, north coast care connect, humboldt county's community information exchange, has grown to 45 participants.nchiin obtained a 3 year California opioid prevention network grant award from the public health institute.nchiin was awarded funding from the headwaters fund to advance their hie data exchange framework networks.nchiin has begun chartering pilot hub/shared administrative services with the humboldt ipa.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 89% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.8%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 78.3%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -19.8%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.21; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.5% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.8% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.1% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 93.8% of revenue deployed · 78.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $721K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 19 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 53/100.