Albuquerque Area Indian Health Board
Legal name: Albuquerque Area Indian Health Board Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 850255630
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2020
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020
- Location
- Albuquerque, NM, USA
- Phone
- (505) 764-0036
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Specialized Education Institutions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $8,932,119
- Expenses
- $8,769,628
- Assets
- $6,799,079
- Liabilities
- $5,376,147
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- AYN WHYTE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- AYN WHYTE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $134,611 total reported compensation
- VERNON LAUGHLIN (FINANCE OFFICER): $108,667 total reported compensation
- BEVERLY COHO (BOARD VICE CHAIR): $7,875 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We advocate on behalf of American Indians through the delivery of quality health care services, which honor spiritual and cultural values.
What it reported doing in 2020
Epidemiology: collection, analysis and dissemination of health data concerning 27 native american tribes in New Mexico, Colorado, and Texas; partnerships with various public and tribal health agencies, private foundations, and universities on a local, regional, and national level on tribal/indigenous health research; community based participatory tribal public health research; institutional review board proposed research projects involving native american people; administration and monitoring of internships, scholarships, mentoring programs, and other developmental projects for native american students in the filed of public health.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 96% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 76% for direct work, and 24% for grants.
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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.7%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 88.9%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.8%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.78; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.79; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.1%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 3 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 87.7% of revenue deployed · 88.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $7.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $135K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes grants
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 36 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 26 filed related-organization links
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Whistleblower policy not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.