Ardent Solutions Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 342030783
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Wellsville, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5855935223
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Health Program (Includes General Health and Wellness Promotion Services)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,932,468
- Expenses
- $1,977,895
- Assets
- $1,371,151
- Liabilities
- $843,310
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Carrie Whitwood (Executive Director)
- Lesley Gooch-Christman (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Carrie Whitwood (Executive Director): $96,803 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To create synergy within and between systems, organizations, families and individuals that result in a strong culture of health and quality services for our communities
What it reported doing in 2025
Ardent Solutions, Inc. is a vibrant and passionate organization whose mission is to create synergy within and between systems, organizations, families and individuals that result in a strong culture of health and quality services for our communities. Founded in 1994, and incorporated in 2005, Ardent Solutions strives to be recognized as an industry leader harnessing all community assets to collectively impact healthcare priorities across the region. Ardent Solutions proudly serves older adults, families and individuals living in poverty and those living with chronic health conditions, while supporting healthcare professionals and institutions by: strengthening accountability, empowering community health, increasing access to services, supporting the healthcare industry infrastructure, and enhancing community health planning. Ardent Solutions works with partners to articulate clear goals, identify quantitative measures, select changes or interventions to help meet the goals, test the changes, study their effectiveness, and implement or modify the change activities. Through this process, Ardent Solutions leads health planning strategies, facilitates collaborative workgroups, implements evidence-based community interventions, and monitors and evaluates program effectiveness. Ardent Solutions continues to develop innovative strategies to address our populationsb
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.1%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 85%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- 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 8 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: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2.4%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.69; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.62; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.9%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.5% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.9% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.1% of revenue deployed · 85% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $97K · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 25 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 24/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 50/100.