Michigan · Nonprofit
MICHIGAN PEER REVIEW ORGANIZATION
MICHIGAN PEER REVIEW ORGANIZATION (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,066,128 to it, the largest being MICHIGAN HEALTH ENDOWMENT FUND ($961,428). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $82M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $88M
What Michigan Peer Review Organization does
Mission
Helping healthcare get better. iMPROve Health has more than 40 years of experience improving healthcare across the continuum of care using evidence-based and data-driven logic. iMPROve Health also has extensive expertise in completing thoughtful and impartial utilization review, dispute resolution and peer reviews.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
For more than 40 years, iMPROve Health has advanced high-quality, cost-effective healthcare through research, data analysis, innovation, and collaboration. As a partner in the Superior Health Quality Alliance, iMPROve Health serves as the Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization supporting CMS quality improvement initiatives across Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin. This work supports our charitable, educational, and scientific purpose by lessening the burdens of government and promoting health through quality improvement activities under Part B of Title XI of the Social Security Act, as amended, to improve the quality, safety, and value of healthcare.
$1,032,502 spent$920,790 earned by the program4% of program spendingThe No Surprises Act, effective January 1, 2022, protects consumers from certain unexpected out-of-network medical bills, or "surprise bills." It also created an independent dispute resolution process for payment disputes between plans and providers, as well as options for uninsured and self-pay individuals whose bills substantially exceed provider good faith estimates. As a leading IDR entity, iMPROve Health provides fair, efficient, and compliant arbitration services, including case management, arbitrator assignment, evidence review, compliance oversight, and customized reporting. This work supports our charitable, educational, and scientific purpose by lessening the burdens of government and promoting health through peer review of the reasonableness, medical necessity, appropriateness, and quality of healthcare services, and by rendering payment determinations for those services.
$21,745,537 spent$74,922,959 earned by the program85% of program spendingFor more than 40 years, iMPROve Health has helped advance healthcare quality nationwide. As an Independent Review Organization, iMPROve Health provides impartial, data-driven, and comprehensive review services through experienced professionals and clinical peer reviewers. The organization delivers timely, objective external reviews for hospitals, third-party payors, health plans, and state insurance departments nationwide and has maintained full URAC accreditation as an Independent Review Organization since 2002. This work supports our charitable, educational, and scientific purpose by advancing healthcare review, quality improvement, education, and research to improve the safety, quality, accessibility, availability, and efficiency of healthcare.
$1,388,039 spent$1,483,613 earned by the program5% of program spendingMedicaid Fee For Service
$653,854 spent$561,890 earned by the program3% of program spendingVetrans Affairs
$450,657 spent$157,743 earned by the program2% of program spendingMiscellaneous program services.
$458,595 spent$263,031 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $25,729,184.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $48M to $121M (+153%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 15% · 2021 12% · 2022 7% · 2023 4% · 2024 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of MICHIGAN PEER REVIEW ORGANIZATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Leland Andrew Babitch
President & CEO
Board chair
Melissa Werbish
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2021: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $192k → $822k.
From the IRS filings of MICHIGAN PEER REVIEW ORGANIZATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
MICHIGAN PEER REVIEW ORGANIZATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund MICHIGAN PEER REVIEW ORGANIZATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 94% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
90% of MICHIGAN PEER REVIEW ORGANIZATION's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
MICHIGAN PEER REVIEW ORGANIZATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,843 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,843 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding MICHIGAN PEER REVIEW ORGANIZATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10.1M on record — $9.4M federal, $691k state.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$9.4M
- CT$630k
- DE$61k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MICHIGAN PEER REVIEW ORGANIZATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
42%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Pathway Review Systems · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MICHIGAN PEER REVIEW ORGANIZATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MICHIGAN PEER REVIEW ORGANIZATION?
- MICHIGAN PEER REVIEW ORGANIZATION (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,066,128 to it, the largest being MICHIGAN HEALTH ENDOWMENT FUND ($961,428). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MICHIGAN PEER REVIEW ORGANIZATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,066,128 in grants to MICHIGAN PEER REVIEW ORGANIZATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MICHIGAN PEER REVIEW ORGANIZATION?
- MICHIGAN HEALTH ENDOWMENT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $961,428 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MICHIGAN PEER REVIEW ORGANIZATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing