Spurwink Services Inc
Overview
Mission
Spurwink responds to community needs by providing behavioral health care, substance use disorder services and support services for people of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds, and their families.
What it reported doing in 2024
Spurwink's outpatient and community-based programs reach approximately 10,000 Mainers each year, providing accessible mental health care, substance use disorder treatment, and specialized support for those facing trauma or abuse. Our innovative servicesincluding outpatient therapy (in public school settings, outpatient offices, and primary care practices), medication management, behavioral health homes, Assertive Community Treatment, Opioid Health Home, Crisis Receiving Center, Certified Community Behavioral Health Center, trauma focused treatment for refugees, child abuse evaluations, as well as a number of contracted services for the Maine Department of Health and Human Services ensure that every individual receives the help they need, wherever they are.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 86% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The nonprofit carried out 100% of its reported program work directly.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 010319802
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Headquarters
- Portland, ME, USA
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for setting executive pay and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 76
- Accountability: 96
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.1%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 87.9%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $41.29 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
- Public monitoring controls: Limited
- Public policy transparency: Limited
- Public financial transparency: Limited
- Impact reporting controls: Limited
- Public relationship transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Public governance controls: Limited
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.4%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 0.54; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.48; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.3%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.1% of revenue deployed · 87.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 14 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $83.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $447K · 27 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 32 of 33 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 11 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 annual filings from 2009 to 2024
- Money network: 14 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link