Gandara Mental Health Center Inc
Overview
Mission
To promote the well being of hispanics, african-americans and other culturally diverse populations across the commonwealth of Massachusetts through innovative, culturally competent behavioral health, prevention, and education services.
What it reported doing in 2024
See schedule oadult long term residential/cbfs: gmhc offers several programs that focus on transitional and permanent housing for youth, adults, and families in the lower pioneer valley. These programs include: gandara residential services for women (grsw)is a women's recovery program. The program focuses on behavior techniques with postive reinforcement. Staff work with participants to help encourage positive behavior and to help participants to learn skills to support a life of sobriety. The program is for women ages 18 and older with an average stay of 6-12 months in the program.hairston house is a recovery program for up to 17 males age 18 and older, who are willing to take responsibility for developing and maintaining an individual service plan. The program focuses on substance abuse and uses behavior modification techniques along with positive reinforcement. The average stay is 3-6 months.gandara addiction recovery program (garp) is a 37 bed facility that provides long-term residential services. The program focuses on residential recovery treatment for spanish speaking men with a dependency on alcohol and drugs. The average stay is 6-12 months, depending on individual need.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% 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
- 042622756
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Headquarters
- Springfield, MA, USA
- Rating
- 80
- 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and the filing reports few safeguards for setting executive pay.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.2%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 86.1%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.66 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 24th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Public governance controls: Limited
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 0.67; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.39; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.6%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21.2% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81.2% of revenue deployed · 86.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $66.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $333K · 15 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 30 of 31 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 9 annual filings from 2016 to 2024
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.