First Access Behavioral Health

What it reported doing in 2024

Chemline, a polyurethane and polyurea formulations manufacturer, has a strong commitment to giving back to the local community. Through its chemline cares initiative, corporate pledges are donated to selected charities through a team-driven effort that embodies their collective spirit of generosity and community involvement. Each member of the chemline cares team champions a charity that is close to their heart, buiding and supporting the charity's nees through a dedicated partnership. In september 2024 chemline cares reached out to first access behavioral health with a desire to fund the organization to further support it's mission to deliver evidence-based services and education to first responders. Members of the chemline team hand-picked first access behaviroal healt due to their first-hand knowledge of the impact of the organization's work. This 31,000 grant provided 258 hours of immediate and barrier free access to specialized therapy services including eye movement desensitization reprocessing, somatic expreiencing processing, brainsportting and neurofeedback. Counseling and crisis intervention are essential to the wellbeing of all first responders, which directly affects them individually, on the job and at home. The fees associated with these services are often too high for the first responder to incur and many departments do not have programs in place that would offset these costs. As a direct result, the first responder does not seek help and falls deeper into despair or ptsd becomes too much to manage and the reults can be devastating. This program provides counseling and crisis intervention, with no financial barriers, for the first responder (and his family) and will include crisis intervention, routine sessions, support groups and ongoing care without time limits. This program includes post-crisis recovery for the first responder and is also in place to serve full departments immediately following critical incidents. Funding comes from fee-for-service visits and grant support from partnering fire departments. More than 25 first responders across Missouri were served with this program in 2024.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 93.8%; rating input score 94
• Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
• Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
  • Whistleblower policy: Fail
  • Document-retention policy: Fail
  • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Missing
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 6.2%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.24; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: Limited
• Revenue growth: 94.6% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 26.4% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings