Wisconsin Association of Health Plans Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 391499957
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Madison, WI, USA
- Phone
- 6082558599
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,303,551
- Expenses
- $1,547,990
- Assets
- $2,519,393
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- COREEN DICUS-JOHNSON (PRESIDENT)
- CATHY MAHAFFEY (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JOHN NYGREN (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- JOHN NYGREN (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $363,458 total reported compensation
- JAMES STOA (DIRECTOR OF POLICY & MEMBER ENGAGEMENT): $194,783 total reported compensation
- HILARY WAUKAU (DIRECTOR OF GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS): $183,053 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Promote a positive state legislative and regulatory climate for Wisconsin's community health plans. The association communicates with regulatory agencies to promote issue positions representing community health plans.
What it reported doing in 2025
Wisconsin association of health plans, inc. Is formed to promote a positive state legislative and regulatory climate for Wisconsin's community health plans. The association represents Wisconsin health plans on state legislative and regulatory issues affecting plan operations and health care quality. The association also promotes the education of consumers, the media, and popular leaders about the high-quality cost-effective health care delivered by Wisconsin's community health plans. Association members also benefit from managed care quality networking through participation and association meetings timely and concise information on common legislative/regulatory issues affecting the industry and relevant educational opportunities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 81% 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: 75
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 69%; rating input score 69; 36th 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; 64th 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: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -18.8%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.63; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 57.1%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $363K · 18 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 15 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 4 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.
- 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 7/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.