Buckelew Programs
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237088977
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Novato, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4154576964
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Mental Health Treatment F31 Psychiatric, Mental Health Hospital
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $23,079,316
- Expenses
- $25,224,451
- Assets
- $14,561,353
- Liabilities
- $7,762,496
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
24 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHRIS KUGHN (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- CHRIS KUGHN (CEO): $246,313 total reported compensation
- KAREN FROST (CHIEF FINANCE AND ADMIN. OFFICER): $186,792 total reported compensation
- ERIKA KLOHE (REGIONAL DIRECTOR): $177,310 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Buckelew programs' mission is to promote recovery, resilience, and hope by providing behavioral health and support services that enhance quality of life.
What it reported doing in 2024
All other programs: service navigation: buckelew program's service navigation connects individuals experiencing mental health challenges, and their advocates, with essential resources tailored to their unique needs. Often, untreated mental health needs or substance use impacts the entire support network surrounding an individual. Our service navigation programs provide education, guidance and connection to life-saving services. Counseling: buckelew programs counseling services provides individual, group, youth, couples and family counseling, with specialized trauma treatment for both children and adults. Our wide range of services is tailored to meet the unique needs of each person, no matter their stage of life. Sessions are available in the office, in the home or virtually.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 84% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 85
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 96.4%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 88.2%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $27.98 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.7%; rating input score 95; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd 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: -9.3%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.58; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.53; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.5%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 96.4% of revenue deployed · 88.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $22.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $246K · 24 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $684K reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 5 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 47/100.