The Midwest Alliance for Patient Safety
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 272552683
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Naperville, IL, USA
- Phone
- 6302765400
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $738,669
- Expenses
- $599,156
- Assets
- $484,677
- Liabilities
- $301,651
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- HELGA BRAKE (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ARTHUR J WILHELMI (CHAIRMAN/DIRECTOR): $1,670,531 total reported compensation
- KAREN HARRIS (SECRETARY): $519,248 total reported compensation
- TERRI L ALLEN (TREASURER): $473,088 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Operation of a federally certified patient safety organization to promote the adoption of best practices to improve the delivery of safe and quality care to patients.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 93% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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 most voting board members are independent. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some related-organization disclosures are missing.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 54
- Accountability: 83
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.2%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 97.4%; rating input score 97
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 7th 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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: No; rating input score 0
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 18.9%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.81; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.62; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 73.1%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -7.1% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 77.2% of revenue deployed · 97.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 7 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $583K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.7M · 12 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 24 of 25 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 9 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Related-party transparency scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.