Upstate Emergency Medicine Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
161502502
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2014
Forms available
Form 990 2014
Location
Syracuse, NY, USA
Phone
3154644363
Rating
66
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Group Health Practice (Health Maintenance Organizations)

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$16,472,340
Expenses
$16,640,850
Assets
$2,952,895
Liabilities
$426,730

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2014. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

62 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • GARY JOHNSON (PRESIDENT; ASSOC PROF/CHAIR)
  • ERIC SHAW (VICE PRESIDENT; ASST PROFESSOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • JOHN MCCABE (PROFESSOR): $695,776 total reported compensation
  • GARY JOHNSON (PRESIDENT; ASSOC PROF/CHAIR): $457,385 total reported compensation
  • JEREMY JOSLIN (INSTRUCTOR/ASST PROFESSOR): $327,588 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2014. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Provide emergent medical care to patients presenting at level 1 trauma center. Provide extensive teaching to medical students, residents, health profession students, faculty members and multiple other learners. Provide research related to emergency medicine to help advance the knowledge of medicine.

What it reported doing in 2014

The corporation was formed to provide and facilitate clinical instruction of residents and medical students at the college of medicine by the department's faculty members. The corporation expanded the program services in 2008 to also provide clinical care and resident nd medical student education at upstate university hospital at community general. Clinical instruction, refers to teaching medical knowledge, skills & procedures to students.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 98% 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 the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 83
  • Transparency & Controls: 71
  • Accountability: 28
  • Sustainability: 21
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 94.4%; rating input score 94
  • Program expense ratio: 93.4%; rating input score 93
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 3rd 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: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -1%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.18; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 57.1%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 94.4% of revenue deployed · 93.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 0 of 49 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $15.5M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $696K · 62 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $1.7M reported
  • Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes executive pay
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2010 to 2014
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 62 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.