Canvas Health

What it reported doing in 2025

1. Outpatient therapy - offers a variety of services to children and adults (individual, family, and group formats) for problems ranging from stress and adjustment disorders to severe and chronic mental illness. Our services begin with an interview so that we can determine the nature of and extent of the problem, followed by the implementation of a customized treatment plan. 2. Substance use disorder treatment services - provides substance use disorder treatment in a variety of forms and settings for adults and adolescents with licensed alcohol and drug counselors. Services include assessment, consultation, education, family programming, and outpatient substance use disorder treatment. 3. Mobile crisis services - responds to mental health crises or emergencies with face-to-face assessment, intervention, and stabilization services at home, school, or in the community.4. Suicide prevention - a community education and training program that provides suicide prevention & postvention services to the dakota communities and 57 counties in Minnesota. 5. Psychiatry - provides adult psychiatric medical services, provided by psychiatrists and psychiatric nurse practitioners, medical evaluation and consultation, treatment planning and medication management. Among other conditions, we offer services for people with depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, suicidal thoughts, bi-polar, attention disorders, and obsessive-compulsive disorder.6. Housing stabilization services - assists adults with disabilities, including mental illness and substance use disorders, in obtaining and maintaining safe, affordable, and stable housing.7. Adult day treatment - provides a series of skills development programs, co-occurring treatment program (mental health and substance use disorders) and dialectical behavioral therapy (dbt).8. Vocational - provides two vocational services programs to help individuals seek and attain employment, and to develop skills to help them maintain employment.9. Service coordination - works in conjunction with property management companies that provide housing for seniors and disabled individuals. The goal is to help residents remain in stable housing and allow them to live independently in an apartment or townhome.10. Psychological services - provides assessment information and consultation to the county, court system, canvas health clinicians and other agencies through comprehensive psychological evaluations. 11. Abuse response services - serves victims of sexual assault and dating violence, as well as provides sexual assault prevention education in Washington county. 12. Adult case management - adult case managers assist adults with severe mental health needs in receiving mental health, social, educational, employment, and other necessary services in order to improve functioning and remain in the community.13. Jail programs - works with inmates to end their addictions by helping them look at what underlies their dependence by addressing their whole lifestyle. 14. Adult rehabilitative mental health services (armhs) helps individuals with mental illness overcome impairments caused by their symptoms in order to function independently in their homes or places of residence.15. Care coordination - works with our clients to thoughtfully organize services, providers, and resource access in ways that most effectively improve their overall health and functioning.16. Police & crisis co-response - police departments contract with canvas health to detail clinical social workers for co-response to mental health, homelessness, substance use disorders, and other quality-of-life issues.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 92%; rating input score 92
• Program expense ratio: 93%; rating input score 93
• Fundraising efficiency: $27.64 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
  • Compensation committee: Missing
  • Independent consultant: Missing
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
  • Written employment contract: Pass
  • Compensation survey or study: Pass
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• 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; 64th 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: 1.7%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.6; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.23; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 5.9%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings