Capital Area Behavioral Health Collaborative
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 251843566
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Harrisburg, PA, USA
- Phone
- 7176717190
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $343,375,313
- Expenses
- $375,870,436
- Assets
- $134,179,956
- Liabilities
- $56,062,132
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Scott Suhring (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Scott Suhring (CEO): $218,306 total reported compensation
- Melissa Hart (CFO): $147,638 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Capital Area Behavioral Health Collaborative (CABHC) is an association of five central Pennsylvania counties formed to enter into a single HealthChoices contract on behalf of the five member counties. The primary purpose of CABHC is to meet the challenges of providing behavioral health services under HealthChoices, the commonwealth of Pennsylvania's program to restructure the medical assistance fee-for-service system into a managed care system. CABHC provides a managed system of health care to those who cannot otherwise afford needed health care for behavioral services to medicaid-eligible recipients.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provided a managed system of health care to those who cannot otherwise afford needed health care for behavioral services to medicaid-eligible recipients.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 99% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 21
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 96%; rating input score 96
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- 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; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9.5%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.36; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.42; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.1%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 21.8% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 20.5% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 96% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $361M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $218K · 15 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $24.7M reported
- Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.