ACADEMY OF MEDICAL & PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES INC DBA RaisingHealth Partners

Overview

Mission

Academy of medical & public health services is a not-for-profit health service organization with a triple aim to identify barriers to health and wellness in underserved immigrant communities; coordinate truly needed primary care with social assistance; and deliver care with dignity and empathy to marginalized new yorkers through its communtiy public health interventions, amphs lends to empowerment of individuals and communities to create their own local and culturally-sensitive health and wellness paradigms. Its program include no-cost health screenings and counseling, consultations, mental health services, social services, english as a second language classes, emergency preparedness trainings, and immigrant rights education.

What it reported doing in 2024

Our programs continued addressing the rising mental health, social service, public safety, and food security needs of our brooklyn community along with our public health services in disease prevention and education. Services offered in 2024 included: community health services: our health team, together with healthcare partners, provided flu vaccines, mammograms and other health screenings through community events and health and social service workshops. We also provided no-cost bilingual mental health counseling sessions for individuals with mild to moderate mental health indications. Together, we reached 4046 community members to access preventative health services and information and connected 401 individuals to health coverage and insurance options. Food distribution: we served a total of 1,128 families, while distributing fresh food and hot meals for sunset park and south brooklyn residents.education program: to empower our community with the language skills for self-advocacy, workforce, and daily living, we provided esol classes, conversation classes and digital literacy education to over 150 students across the beginner, high beginner, intermediate and advanced levels. Community safety: we provided community safety workshops on topics including self-defense, bystander intervention, immigrant kyrs and cpr/first aid to 1008 participants. Distributed over 400 community safety materials to businesses and individuals. We created 2 community murals and engaged over 80 participants in the painting process. We led an emergency preparedness coalition that served 111 individuals through preparedness related events and workshops. Community engagement: during the year, we conducted over 170 community engagement activations, where we spoke at community events, tabled, canvassed, phone and textbanked, and led discussion forums, reaching a total of 5992 individuals. Our community engagement work included sharing health, social service and education resources; increasing civic engagement; increasing awareness about the organization's programs and services; and widespread public health education. We also utilized social media to increase health and social service education.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 72% 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.

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
272206293
IRS 990 coverage
2018–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2014
Headquarters
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Phone
2122569036
Rating
67
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
First Aid

Official website

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 51
  • Transparency & Controls: 70
  • Accountability: 83
  • Sustainability: 73
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 40.2%; rating input score 40
  • Program expense ratio: 70.7%; rating input score 71
  • Fundraising efficiency: $12.24 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 43.2%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.18; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 13.5%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 25.6% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 33.5% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 37% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 40.2% of revenue deployed · 70.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 8 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $215K · 8 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 7 annual filings from 2018 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • HEWETT CHIU (President & CEO): $215,379 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: FY2024.