Washington State Hospital Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 910584257
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2062817211
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $17,096,686
- Expenses
- $19,829,498
- Assets
- $33,458,086
- Liabilities
- $6,887,147
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
35 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CASSIE SAUER (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- CASSIE SAUER (PRESIDENT & CEO): $1,051,567 total reported compensation
- TAYA BRILEY FOX (EVP/GENERAL COUNSEL): $537,987 total reported compensation
- DARCY JAFFE (SVP, SAFETY AND QUALITY): $375,365 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Washington state hospital association is a member organization comprised of hospitals and other member organizations. The association represents hospitals in legislative and regulatory activities, provides leadership on patient safety and care improvements, and provides educational opportunities, technical services and information related to hospital financing and delivery of healthcare.
What it reported doing in 2024
Clinical excellence: Washington hospitals have a commitment to pursuing excellence for safe, high-quality, cost-effective health care for the people of Washington state. Through wsha's award-winning patient safety program, hospitals cooperate and work together to share best practices and measure improvements in areas as diverse as maternal and infant health, diagnostic excellence, opioid stewardship, and workplace violence. This program helps to ensure the right care is delivered, at the right time, to every patient, every time. In the last several years, our patient safety work resulted in tens of thousands of prevented patient harms and hundreds of millions of dollars saved. The program is uniquely positioned to work with all wsha members, from multi-state systems to critical access hospitals. We work with each hospital to support peer-to-peer sharing, data analysis and access to national experts.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 77% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 98
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- 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: 90.6%; rating input score 91; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 95.8%; rating input score 96; 29th 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: -16%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.69; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 22.5%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 23 of 24 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.1M · 35 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.7M reported
- Consistency: 13 of 14 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 14 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 58/100.