Endeavor Health

Legal name: Northwest Community Healthcare

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
363125209
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
Location
Evanston, IL, US
Phone
(224) 364-7600
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$131,361,763
Expenses
$211,975,398
Assets
$472,871,244
Liabilities
$57,668,926

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

Leadership & pay

23 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Gerald P Gallagher (System President and CEO)
  • Michael C Hartke (President, NCH)

Highest reported compensation

  • Gerald P Gallagher (System President and CEO): $5,191,626 total reported compensation
  • Sean O'Grady (Director): $2,479,109 total reported compensation
  • Douglas D Welday (System Treasurer and CFO): $2,184,620 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To help everyone in our communities be their best.

What it reported doing in 2024

Northwest Community Healthcare is engaged in the practice of providing medical, occupational health, wellness and various other healthcare services to patients throughout the community at various medical sites, including but not limited to, medical office locations, immediate care centers, specialty care centers, community colleges and various organizations. Northwest Community Healthcare owns and operates an 83,000 square foot wellness center on the campus of Northwest Community Hospital. The facility provides fitness and wellness services to area residents. In addition, the wellness center donated memberships and free passes to armed service members, unrelated charities, and community organizations throughout the year. The hospital also utilizes space at the wellness center for cardiac rehab and outpatient physical medicine and rehab. Northwest Community Healthcare rents space in its medical office buildings and other facilities located in Arlington Heights, Buffalo Grove, Schaumburg, Mount Prospect, Lake Zurich, and Palatine, Illinois to Northwest Community Hospital, a related 501(c)(3) entity. The hospital uses this space for its exempt purposes, including the operations of five immediate care centers, imaging centers, and cardiac rehabilitation and physical medicine services.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 100% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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

SUPPORTED - 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 87
  • Transparency & Controls: 68
  • Accountability: 71
  • Sustainability: 36
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 95.3%; rating input score 95
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 12th 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: 99.5%; rating input score 99; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 73.7%; rating input score 74; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • 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: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -61.4%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.23; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 1.9%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 19.7% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 14.1% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 95.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 14 of 19 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $202M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $5.2M · 23 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $41.3M reported
  • Consistency: 32 of 33 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 39 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 57/100.