Thunder Bay Community Health Service
Legal name: Thunder Bay Community Health Servic
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 382290337
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025
- Location
- Hillman, MI, US
- Phone
- 989-742-4583
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $38,129,636
- Expenses
- $37,208,723
- Assets
- $27,526,074
- Liabilities
- $6,404,471
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
24 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RICHARD BATES (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- MARION HAUTEA (PHYSICIAN): $345,921 total reported compensation
- MUHAMMAD ABDELHAI (PHYSICIAN): $330,608 total reported compensation
- RICHARD BATES (CEO): $320,853 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Thunder Bay Community Health Service, Inc. commits its resources to building healthier communities.
What it reported doing in 2025
This federally qualified community health center had 19,718 patients and provided 84,394 clinical visits including medical, dental, optometry and behavioral health services.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 78% 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
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74.4%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 76.4%; rating input score 76
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.4%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.74; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.23; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.2%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 15 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 6 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 74.4% of revenue deployed · 76.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $28.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $346K · 24 people listed · 6 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $612K reported
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 41/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.