Fairfield Behavioral Health Service

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
570619759
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Winnsboro, SC, USA
Phone
8036352335
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Crime Prevention

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,192,561
Expenses
$1,217,762
Assets
$1,827,750
Liabilities
$595,216

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • VERNON L KENNEDY (EXECUTIVE DI): $108,370 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Fairfield behavorial health services (fbhs) is a non-profit outpatient treatment facility. One of 32 county substance abuse authorities created by the South Carolina act of 1973. In 1979, fairfield county designated fbhs as the sole county authority for alcohol and drug abuse treatment.

What it reported doing in 2024

Description: covid stabilization - the program focused on the treatment and other services that were identified in the daodas approved county plan to include workforce activities, contingency management for clients and staff development/training, marketing and outreach. Description: alcohol and drug safety action program - provides treatment for alcohol and drug abuse in cooperation with the legal system. Description: prevention/education program includes seminars and conferences providing groups with education information designed to prevent alcohol and drug abuse description: school prevention - in collaboration with the fairfield county school district provides programs that teaches refusal skills, while realizing the risks of drugs and avoiding risky drug related situations. Also, reducing the risks of alcohol, tobacco and drug abuse and violence. Description: pairs program provides emergency assistance to individuals in the substance abuse program that are making positive gains. Description: state opiod response primary prevention - focuses on implementing evidence-based environmental, and educational primary prevention strategies in an effort to prevent opioid and stimulant misuse and reduce the consequences of opioid and stimulant misuse. Description: covid mitigation provides resources to prevent, prepare, and respond to the coronovirus disease public health emergency and ensure the continuity of services to support individuals. Description: primary prevention enhancement grant purpose of enhancing the implementation of evidence-based primary prevention strategies to reduce the risks of substance use related to health disparities for special target populations, such as families, women of childbearing age, older adults, military families and lgbtq individuals. Description: other training for staff description: outpatient block grant transportation provides transportation for clients.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 81% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 78
  • Transparency & Controls: 83
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 38
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 89%; rating input score 89
  • Program expense ratio: 87.1%; rating input score 87
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 16th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • 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: -2.1%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.5; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.33; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 8.9%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 11.2% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 12% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 89% of revenue deployed · 87.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $108K · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 27 of 28 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D land buildings reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 40/100.