Vail Health Behavioral Health

Legal name: Eagle Valley Mental Health

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
834327406
IRS 990 coverage
2018–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Vail, CO, US
Phone
(970) 476-2451
Rating
68
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Health Support Services

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$26,905,491
Expenses
$23,585,767
Assets
$41,642,069
Liabilities
$34,082,899

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

Leadership & pay

19 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • WILL COOK (PRESIDENT & CEO, VAIL HEALTH)
  • CHRIS LINDLEY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • WILL COOK (PRESIDENT & CEO, VAIL HEALTH): $1,378,594 total reported compensation
  • AMANDA VEIT (COO, VAIL HEALTH): $921,642 total reported compensation
  • CHRIS LINDLEY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $728,334 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

To provide the critical change needed to ensure the vision for a robust, sustainable behavioral health system is realized.

What it reported doing in 2024

Mountain strong eap: an employee assistance program (eap) exists for employers in the eagle river valley to improve access to behavioral health services for individuals, family and couples therapy, as well as for medication management services. Participating employees and dependents are eligible to receive six free behavioral health sessions per incident with a robust panel of experienced behavioral health providers. Mountain strong ensures that all in-network behavioral health providers are appropriately licensed, registered and insured. Providers come from private practice, some live/work in eagle county, while others reside in the denver metro area, or in other states (licensed to practice in Colorado through teletherapy) to ensure a diverse and qualified pool of clinicians. Patients and providers connect via a comprehensive database at mountainstrong.org.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 93% 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. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 60
  • Transparency & Controls: 65
  • Accountability: 80
  • Sustainability: 62
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 64%; rating input score 64
  • Program expense ratio: 72.8%; rating input score 73
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 1st 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: 95.9%; rating input score 96; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 82.4%; rating input score 82; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • 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: 12.3%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.77; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.82; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 1%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 29.8% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 20.4% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 21.7% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 8 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 4 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: 64% of revenue deployed · 72.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 14 of 17 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $17.2M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $1.4M · 19 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $465K reported
  • Consistency: 27 of 28 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 13 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.

Key Signals

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

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.