Citrus Health Network

Legal name: Citrus Health Network Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
591865751
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Hialeah, FL, United States
Phone
305-825-0300
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$243,002,602
Expenses
$242,821,287
Assets
$44,424,383
Liabilities
$25,583,211

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

Leadership & pay

30 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MARIO E JARDON (PRESIDENT & CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • MARIO E JARDON (PRESIDENT & CEO): $790,155 total reported compensation
  • ARTURO RODRIGUEZ (PSYCHIATRIST): $584,152 total reported compensation
  • RAFAEL GARCIA (MEDICAL STAFF): $467,568 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Citrus Health Network, Inc. is in the business of helping people, providing a total wellness approach that integrates behavioral health services and primary care and coordinates care across a broad range of health services and community-based programs. Citrus Health Network is your trusted provider of comprehensive HIV/AIDS care services. We offer a continuum of support, including linkage to care and resources provided by our experienced team. Through our Ryan White Program, eligible individuals can access additional primary care and supportive services, such as medical case management, peer services, and adherence counseling. We are proud to be supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), ensuring accessible care for our community. Help our mission to provide quality care and support to those living...

What it reported doing in 2024

Crisis support and csu services: crisis support: citrus' assessment and emergency services department provides non-residential crisis support services 24-hours-a-day, 7-days-a-week ensuring that clients always have access to behavioral health screenings, assessments, and referrals. Crisis stabilization: citrus' adult and child crisis stabilization units provide brief, intensive services for individuals who are acutely mentally ill and experiencing a mental health crisis, with the goal of examining and stabilizing the individual, and redirecting them to the most appropriate and least restrictive treatment setting for their needs. Other accomplishments: citrus was recognized by the health resources and services administration (hrsa) with community health quality recognition badges awarded to health centers that have made a notable quality improvement achievement in the areas of access, quality, health equity and health information technology. Citrus received the following five badges:-health center quality leader- bronze: represents health center awardees and lals that meet or exceed national benchmarks for one or more of the clinical quality measures (cqms) groups that promote behavioral health, heart health, diabetes health, HIV prevention and care, and maternal and child health. Health centers that achieve bronze tier are among the top 30% in performance of all health centers in overall cqms.-advancing health information technology (hit) for quality: meets all criteria to optimize hit services that advance telehealth, patient engagement, interoperability, and collection of social determinants of health data to increase access to care and advance quality of carecitrus was re-accredited by joint commission for ambulatory care and behavioral health care and human services, as well as a behavioral health home certification and a primary care medical home designation. For the first time ever, citrus earned a perfect score during the health resources and services administration (hrsa) operational site visit in june 2025. Citrus was praised as a "top-tier health center and recognized as having a "spirit of excellence". Citrus earned renewed institutional accreditation with the accreditation council for graduate medical education to continue its psychiatry residency program and child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship program.citrus' psychology post-doctoral residency program has earned re-accreditation from the american psychological association (apa) commission on accreditation, extending its credentials through 2034.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 73% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 82
  • Transparency & Controls: 65
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 26
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 91.7%; rating input score 92
  • Program expense ratio: 91.8%; rating input score 92
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • 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; 77th 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: 0.1%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.18; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.58; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.1%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 15.2% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 12.3% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 91.7% of revenue deployed · 91.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $222.9M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $790K · 30 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $41.1M reported
  • Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 16 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 53/100.