AIDS Response Seacoast
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 222884488
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Portsmouth, NH, USA
- Phone
- 6034335377
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Health
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $411,842
- Expenses
- $388,956
- Assets
- $293,972
- Liabilities
- $108,621
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Andrew Houldsworth (Vice President)
- David Steady (President)
- Tamara Leibowitz (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Tyra Bauguess (Director)
- Kelsey Elliott (Director)
- Jordan McKenny (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provide Education, Direct Assistance, and Advocacy for persons and groups affected by HIV/AIDS.
What it reported doing in 2024
The Department of Clients Services provides clients-centered Medical Case Management for people living with HIV/AIDS who live in Rockingham and Strafford Counties of New Hampshire. Case managers at ARS provide direct, face-to-face meetings for initial assessments, re-assessments and informal 'check-in' meetings, phone support and medical and social referrals as indicated. Within this process, a client's needs and goals are assessed, and an individual service plan (ISP) is developed in collaboration with the client to attain their goals. A case manager coordinates this process by providing information, advocacy and referrals linking clients to primary and specialty health care, dental, mental health/substance misuse counseling, Medicaid, Medicare, fuel assistance, SNAP, Housing programs and the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) administered by the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services CARE program.ARS served a total of 126 clients in FY 2025. ARS clients had a viral suppression rate of over 96%. In FY 25, we provided more than $18,000 in direct rent/utility support, over $16,000 in food vouchers and direct food support through our food pantry. ARS clients received over $1,500 in transportation and over $5,000 in other direct client support categories. Also, ARS coordinated for our clients an additional $49,000 of direct long-term and short-term housing support through HOPWA Balance of State.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 77% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.7%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 93.9%; rating input score 94
- Fundraising efficiency: $61.21 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.6%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.76; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.37; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 88.7% of revenue deployed · 93.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $365K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.