Western Reserve Health Educ Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
452409508
IRS 990 coverage
2016–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Sharon, PA, USA
Phone
3306755706
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Health, General and Financing

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,298,886
Expenses
$5,106,932
Assets
$673,732
Liabilities
$858

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • KIMBERLY P HOWE PHD (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • KIMBERLY P HOWE PHD (PRESIDENT): $148,126 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Western reserve health education("wrhe")is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to provide lifelong learning opportunities for physicians and health care professionals in all areas of clinical care and research by providing diverse educational activities that aim to increase knowledge, attitude, and skills; enhance practice performance, and; improve the health status of our patients and communities we serve. Wrhe has five departments aimed at fulfilling this mission: graduate medical education, undergraduate medical education, continuing medial education, health science library and research. Wrhe provides quality medical care to the citizens of Ohio at reduced rates or no cost to those citizens who lack appropriate health care.

What it reported doing in 2025

In 2025, western reserve health education (wrhe) educated 70 newly graduated physicians in our graduate medical education program in three specialties. Of those 70 physicians, 19 graduated and became board certified in their respective specialty. During 2025, wrhe also educated 250 medical students. Whre conducted 20 cme events with 260 practicing physicians attending the 20 cme education events. Western reserve health education (wrhe) is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to provide lifelong learning opportunities for physicians and health care professionals in all areas of clinical care and research by providing diverse education activities that aim to increase knowledge, attitude, and skills; enhance practice performance; and improve the health status of our patients and communities we serve. Wrhe has five departments aimed at fulfilling this mission: graduate medical education, undergraduate medical education, continuing medical education, health science library, and research. Wrhe provides quality medical care to the citizens of Ohio at reduced or no cost to those citizens who lack appropriate health care.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 97% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 89
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 84
  • Sustainability: 17
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 99.7%; rating input score 100
  • Fundraising efficiency: $0 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -293.2%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.13; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.9%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -0.9% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -3.6% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -1.5% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 99.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $5.1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $148K · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 1/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 53/100.