HowardCenter Inc
Overview
Mission
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What it reported doing in 2024
Mental Health Substance Use and Developmental Services provide a variety of short-term to long-term support services, treatment and care management to individuals who are experiencing the effects of mental illness, substance use disorders, or developmental disabilities. Emotional, psychological, or behavioral distress may be present regardless of diagnosis, situational stress, or life circumstances. Services include care management, supportive counseling, outpatient treatment, psychiatric care, residential care, harm reduction, medication management, and employment support. Services are provided with the goal of successfully integrating individuals into the community, honoring self-determination, and meeting the care needs clients identify.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 88% 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
- 030179433
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Website reviewed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Headquarters
- Burlington, VT, USA
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 57
- Accountability: 92
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.7%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 90.3%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: $33.55 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 6 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
- Public monitoring controls: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Public policy transparency: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Public financial transparency: 0 of 5 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Impact reporting controls: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Public relationship transparency: No; rating input score 0
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Public governance controls: 1 of 4 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.3%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 0.38; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.45; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.7%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 91.7% of revenue deployed · 90.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $128.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $382K · 28 people listed · 6 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 16 annual filings from 2009 to 2024
- Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links