Washington Association for Community Health
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 911323282
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Olympia, WA, USA
- Phone
- 3607869722
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,663,940
- Expenses
- $6,020,759
- Assets
- $4,973,671
- Liabilities
- $1,567,173
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
33 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JENNIFER KREIDLER-MOSS (PRESIDENT (THRU 04/24))
- MICHAEL MAXWELL (PRESIDENT)
- DESIREE SWEENEY (VICE PRESIDENT (THRU 04/24))
- RASHAD COLLINS (VICE PRESIDENT)
- ROBERT MARSALLI (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER (THRU 02/25))
Highest reported compensation
- ROBERT MARSALLI (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER (THRU 02/25)): $200,167 total reported compensation
- KRISTINA ALNAJJAR (CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER): $139,822 total reported compensation
- COURTNEY SMITH (CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER): $137,617 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of Washington association for community health is to strengthen and advocate for Washington's community health centers (chcs) as they build healthcare access, innovation, and value. The association provides training and technical assistance support in the following areas: workforce, outreach & enrollment, data, clinical, qi, oral health, behavioral health, and policy/advocacy. The association's work is governed by its board of directors and various committees comprised of chc staff.
What it reported doing in 2024
Care improvement & innovation: the association works with federally qualified health centers to provide technical assistance, training, and learning opportunities for quality improvement staff, medical directors, pharmacists, behavioral health providers, dental directors, emergency preparedness managers, hr professionals, and clinical care teams. Some accomplishments for the year ended december 31, 2024 included: convened 6 sessions of building skills in sexual health series to focus on comprehensive sexual health skills and HIV/sti diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. Convened 3 medical director learning meetings focused on clinical operations, optimizing patient access, and innovative care models. Convened 3 human resources learning meetings focused on a.i. In the healthcare workforce, recruitment and retention, and the ahec program. Convened 3 pharmacy learning meetings focused on the 340b program, workforce issues, and pharmacy regulations and operations. Convened 3 behavioral health learning meetings focused on clinical practices, loan repayment programs, continuity of care, and opioid use disorder. Convened 4 learning meetings for financial operations leaders to promote financial resiliency and share promising practices in revenue cycle management. Convened 3 dental learning meetings focused on preventive oral care, dental workforce, and oral health operational issues. Convened 2 emergency preparedness learning meetings focused on addressing emergency preparedness needs at health centers, basic business concepts, and ep coalition engagement. Partnered with upstream USA to provide training and technical assistance to health centers to improve the provision of patient-centered, noncoercive access to contraception. Partnered with northwest regional primary care association to host an integrated care conference series focused on behavioral health and primary care integration and collaboration on common conditions. Partnered with university of Washington colonoscopy outreach for rural communities program to provide patient navigation toward colonoscopy completion. Hosted a uds reporting training series to support health center staff in submitting accurate and timely data.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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 - 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: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.1%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 65.4%; rating input score 65
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 17th 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: 96.9%; rating input score 97; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: -6.3%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.83; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.32; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.2%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.6% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.2% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 70.1% of revenue deployed · 65.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 28 of 28 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $3.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $200K · 33 people listed · 6 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 35 of 36 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.