Access Health Africa
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 562219139
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Boone, NC, USA
- Phone
- 8282789749
- Rating
- 92
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Children's, Youth Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $61,946
- Expenses
- $95,504
- Assets
- $108,939
- Liabilities
- $5,000
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Karen Clark (President)
- Priscilla Nkhoma (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Karen Clark (President)
- Priscilla Nkhoma (Vice President)
- Dr Vanessa Msosa (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Access Health Africa's medical service programming focuses on community-level interventions. Due to the decentralized nature of life in Malawi and the overburdened formal health sector, effective interventions happen at the community level - where Access Health Africa excels at working. AHA specializes in community level work, psychosocial support, building local capacity, providing direct services, and education. At the local level we focus on health knowledge, improving community structures and attitudes surrounding health, direct service delivery, and access to health services and care. AHA specializes in community level work, psychosocial support, building local capacity, providing direct services, and education. At the local level we focus on health knowledge, improving community structures and attitudes surrounding health, direct service delivery, and access to health services and care.
What it reported doing in 2024
2. Surgical Camps provide a broad range of diagnoses, treatment, and surgical procedures to the people of Malawi while also providing training to local healthcare workers. Volunteers and paid practitioners, including doctors, nurses, and ancillary support staff, provide acute care to a population of patients who would otherwise not have access to medical care due to high transportation costs and/or lack of knowledge or understanding of the system. Malawi has just one doctor per 50,000 people - one of the lowest levels in the world. Recent research found that there are only 37 working surgeons in Malawi, the population of which is estimated to be approximately 17 million people. That's nearly half a million people per surgeon! In Surgical Camps, AHA staff partner directly with rural healthcare providers to identify individuals waiting for surgeries. A primary goal of AHA is not only to address the immediate, acute health issues in Malawi but also to increase the capacity of the healthcare sector, which is done through one-on-one partnerships during Surgical Camps.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -54.2%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.14; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4.2% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.8% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.6% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $96K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.