Alliance for a Healthier Generation Inc

What it reported doing in 2024

Advancing equitable whole child health: delivering evidence-based, collaborative solutions at the intersection of health and education.* place-based and national programming: healthier generation advances equitable whole child health through a powerful dual-impact approach combining place-based and national strategies. Aligned with the cdc and ascd's whole school, whole community, whole child (wscc) model, the organization equips school communities to build healthier, more supportive learning environments. Continued on schedule o.at the local level, our place-based approach is rooted in deep community engagement and designed to drive measurable improvements in areas experiencing significant health disparities. Through collaborative dialogue, shared goals are shaped to reflect local values and priorities. We convene key stakeholders-educators, families, health professionals, and community leaders-to foster cross-sector partnerships and build sustained support. We provide partners across the school community with training, technical assistance, digital tools, and resources to promote data-informed decision-making and adoption and implementation of evidence-based policies and practices to improve health outcomes. Our place-based programming demonstrates scalable success and is currently active in North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Arizona, and Texas. To extend our reach nationally, healthier generation offers a comprehensive suite of support including assessment tools, wellness policy templates, evidence-based resources and training modules, data insights, and reporting capabilities. These can all be accessed through our one-of-a-kind digital hub, the healthier generation action center. This platform enables schools and districts across the country to strengthen their school health policies and practices, regardless of location or funding capacity. Together, these integrated strategies position healthier generation to deliver sustainable, systems-level change-ensuring every young person is healthy, supported, and ready to succeed. Healthier generation utilizes a decentralized staffing model with team members based in 25 states including priority states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Texas, and Arizona. This structure enables the organization to maintain a local presence in priority states while coordinating virtually from across the country. Healthier generation currently has a west coast office in portland, or (legal address) as well as an east coast office in durham, nc.* america's healthiest schools: america's healthiest schools is healthier generation's annual award program which recognizes schools for adopting, strengthening, and sustaining policies and practices that promote physical, mental, and emotional well-being. Awardees must meet established criteria sourced from healthier generation's evidence-informed assessment tool(s) that helps schools identify strengths and opportunities for improving policies and practices to advance health and learning with an integrated whole child health approach. Since the award's debut in 2007, healthier generation has recognized 3,347 schools across 47 states benefiting millions of students, staff, and families.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
• Program expense ratio: 79.6%; rating input score 80
• Fundraising efficiency: $10.86 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 14th percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
  • Compensation committee: Missing
  • Independent consultant: Pass
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Pass
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: 38.6%; rating input score 39; 10th percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
  • 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: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -29.7%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.73; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 10.3%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: -2.7% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: -2.7% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings