ACG Health
Legal name: AIDS Care Group
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 232965785
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Chester, PA, US
- Phone
- (610) 586-4300
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Health
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $77,454,293
- Expenses
- $74,664,403
- Assets
- $27,619,270
- Liabilities
- $10,152,659
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
27 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ERIC STRAUSS MA MPH (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- CEPHUS Hales-Richardson (President)
- CHARLES JARMAN (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- ERIC STRAUSS MA MPH (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $373,130 total reported compensation
- HOWELL STRAUSS DMD (DIR OF INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT): $286,922 total reported compensation
- ANN FERGUSON MSN RN (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $264,444 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide high quality clinical and supportive services regardless of insurance status or ability to pay.
What it reported doing in 2024
Charitable medical, dental, case management, psychological, housing and related activities and services for individuals with HIV and affected by AIDS.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 92% 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.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94.5%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 98%; rating input score 98
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.6%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.37; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.37; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.8%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.4% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.6% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.2% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 11 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 4 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 94.5% of revenue deployed · 98% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $73.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $373K · 27 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $974K reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 20 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 50/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 49/100.