Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc
Overview
Mission
The mission of the boston health care for the homeless program (bhchp) is to provide or assure access to the highest quality health care for all individuals and families experiencing homelessness in our community.
What it reported doing in 2024
Medical, dental, behavioral health and substance use disorder treatment services provided to adults and families experiencing homelessness in approximately 30 family and adult shelters, hospitals, and day center clinics throughout greater boston.
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 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
- 043160480
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Headquarters
- Boston, MA, USA
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services
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: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 92
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.5%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 81.7%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: $19.82 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- 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: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 30th 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: 1.1%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 0.94; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.9%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 82.5% of revenue deployed · 81.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 14 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $81.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $375K · 26 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 annual filings from 2009 to 2024
- Money network: 10 filed money-flow records