Chesapeake Health Education Program

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
521711309
IRS 990 coverage
2012–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Perryville, MD, USA
Phone
4106421195
Rating
75
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$3,234,996
Expenses
$3,555,849
Assets
$3,446,070
Liabilities
$874,435

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ERIC METZ (PRESIDENT)
  • STEVEN KROEDEL (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • JOHN J BERKERIDGE (CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • CATHERINE BENNETT (DIRECTOR OF CONTINUING EDUCATION): $132,387 total reported compensation
  • JOHN J BERKERIDGE (CEO): $123,104 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Chesapeake health education program, inc. (chep) is a 501 (c)(3) organization that has a dual mission of providing transitional housing through veteran-only programs and hosting affordable, high quality educational programs for healthcare providers in harford and cecil counties as well as the surrounding counties and states. We have found ourselves with this unique purpose, based on an organizational history of providing continuing education for medical professionals serving the veteran community. At the same time, a need was discovered to provide transitional housing for homeless veterans. It was decided that chep would utilize funds earned by providing continuing education programming to financially support the veteran transitional housing program.

What it reported doing in 2024

Education programs & conferences: chep continued its commitment to professional education and workforce development by providing accredited training opportunities for healthcare, behavioral health, federal workforce, and military professionals throughout 2024. Chep delivered nine behavioral health programs, including trauma-informed care (16 participants), the annual addictions conference (40), best practices for military-connected families (7), anti-discriminatory treatment (13), firearm suicide prevention (6), burnout & prevention for social workers (10), suicide prevention (96), implicit bias (34), and ethics (25) serving a total of 247 participants.additionally, chep hosted two dental continuing education programs p.a.n.d.a. (prevent abuse and neglect through dental awareness) (54) and medically complex patients (14) with 68 participants in total.chep also supported and participated in federal and regional workforce events, including the workers' compensation conference (474 attendees), mcapp (300), and Iowa's best (500) reaching 1,274 participants collectively.in partnership with the counter narcotics and tactical operations medical support (contoms) program, chep supported seven specialized tactical medical training programs nationwide. These included basic 146 (43 attendees), advanced xiii (27), advanced xiv (18), omsu april (20), omsu august (30), basic 148 (56), and tactical first responder (11) providing advanced medical instruction to 205 military and tactical medical professionals.overall, chep's 2024 education and training initiatives reached approximately 1,794 participants across all disciplines. These programs advanced chep's mission by promoting best practices, professional collaboration, and improved service delivery for veterans, healthcare providers, first responders, and the federal workforce community.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 94% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 73
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 86
  • Sustainability: 26
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 83.8%; rating input score 84
  • Program expense ratio: 77.5%; rating input score 78
  • Fundraising efficiency: $0.11 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 16th 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: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -9.9%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.97; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.25; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 7.2%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -5.8% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -9.1% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -8.3% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 83.8% of revenue deployed · 77.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 10 of 12 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $2.8M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $132K · 12 people listed
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $132K reported
  • Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 2 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 1/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 38/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 41/100.