Valley Children's Healthcare
Legal name: Valley Children's Medical Group
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 464150987
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024, Form 990-N 2013
- Location
- Madera, CA, USA
- Phone
- 559-353-3000
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Pediatrics
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $211,413,193
- Expenses
- $211,046,382
- Assets
- $97,103,440
- Liabilities
- $20,924,347
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
25 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DAVID CHRISTENSEN MD (PRESIDENT)
- MICHELE WALDRON FORMER BOARD (MEMBER, EVP & PC TO CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- TODD SUNTRAPAK (BOARD MEMBER): $2,982,371 total reported compensation
- DAVID CHRISTENSEN MD (PRESIDENT): $1,140,410 total reported compensation
- TINA MYCROFT (SVP & CFO): $790,896 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provide high-quality, comprehensive healthcare services to children, regardless of their ability to pay, and continuously improve the health and well-being of children. Special focus on giving back to our community:** Honoring our mission and our founding mothers’ vision, we are deeply committed to serving the children and families of the Central Valley, regardless of their ability to pay, and to giving back to our communities through education and kid-centered, community-based programming. Our mission, vision and values Mission:** Our mission is to provide high-quality, comprehensive healthcare services to children, regardless of their ability to pay, and to continuously improve the health and well-being of children.
What it reported doing in 2024
See schedule othe mission of valley children's healthcare is to provide high quality, comprehensive healthcare services to children and to continously improve the health and well-being of individuals with health conditions of pediatric origin, regardless of their ability to pay.valley children's medical group, a California non-profit public benefit corporation is organized and operated as a 1206(l) tax-exempt medical foundation and is formed for the purpose of advancing the mission of the valley children's healthcare entities, by owning and operating outpatient locations throughout central California, conducting medical research and education, and providing professional physician coverage and related management services. Moreover, in addition to the above, valley children's medical group treats children in an area suffers severe medical shortages. Finally, over 70% of the medical group's gross patient revenues are from patients covered by medi-cal.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% 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. 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: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 65
- Accountability: 83
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 96.2%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 96.3%; rating input score 96
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th 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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 86.7%; rating input score 87; 33rd 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: 0.2%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.46; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.22; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.7%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.2% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.9% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.2% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 96.2% of revenue deployed · 96.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 15 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $203.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $3M · 25 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $182.1M reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 6 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: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.