Community Health Workers Association of Rochester

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
462034897
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Rochester, NY, USA
Rating
67
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Professional Societies, Associations

Reported finances

Revenue
$82,304
Expenses
$32,129
Assets
$53,184

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Jacqueline H Sweeney (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Jacqueline H Sweeney (Executive Director)
  • Lucia Colindres (Chief Program Officer)
  • Jacob Sweeney-Davis (IT Officer)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

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

Overview

Mission

Community Health Workers Association of Rochester Inc. CHWAR is a nonprofit dedicated to enhancing the role and leadership of Community Health Workers CHWs. Its core mission is to promote public health and equity by empowering CHWs through support education and advocacy. The organization boosts the CHW field via training leadership programs and community collaborations to enhance the health of marginalized groups. Key impacts include enhancing public health aiding underserved communities and backing a valued workforce that diminishes health inequalities.

What it reported doing in 2024

Program Purpose: To expand the Community Health Worker CHW workforce by providing free accessible training to underserved communities of color improving health equity and economic opportunity.Services Provided: The organization offered no-cost CHW core competency training health equity education and workforce readiness sessions to prepare participants for entry into the CHW profession. Training included communication skills care coordination cultural humility chronic disease prevention and community outreach strategies. Number of Persons Benefited: More than 35 individuals from underserved Black Latino and immigrant communities participated in the program and were supported in pursuing CHW roles across Rochester and the Finger Lakes region.Impact: The program reduced financial barriers to education increased representation of CHWs from communities most affected by health disparities and strengthened the local public health workforce. Many participants successfully entered employment in healthcare nonprofit and community-based settings as trained CHWs.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 100% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 62
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 62
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 39%; rating input score 39
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 61%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.66; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 49.3%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 39% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $32K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 39/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.