Northwestern Memorial Physicians Group
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 364030256
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2009
- Forms available
- Form 990 2009
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 3129264237
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Group Health Practice (Health Maintenance Organizations)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $64,118,152
- Expenses
- $64,118,152
- Assets
- $14,765,488
- Liabilities
- $11,043,150
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2009. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2009. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provide a health care delivery network aligned with the mission and purpose of northwestern memorial hospital. Nmpg employs physicians to provide comprehensive primary care medical services to residents of the community, teaching services to the feinberg school of medicine and its medical students, and perform research and develop means to improve accessibility to quality health care services.
What it reported doing in 2009
Nmpg participates in various research and innovation activities together with community partners with a goal of improving quality of and access to medical care. This includes chronic disease management with federally qualified health centers, information technology for mt sinai hospital, development of supportive services for lurie comprehensive cancer center and development of computerized tools for tracking northwestern memorial hospital emergency room patients.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 91% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 42
- Sustainability: 17
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 6 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 2nd 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: 0%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.23; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.75; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.3%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 0 of 6 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $53.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1M · 12 people listed · 6 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Related organizations: 7 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.