Foundation for Healthy Communities of Northeastern Utah

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
274784693
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Vernal, UT, USA
Phone
4357778150
Rating
91
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$106,629
Expenses
$89,677
Assets
$121,022
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Carrie Arnold (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Kirk Benge (Chairman of the Board)
  • Sydney Lyons (Secretary)
  • Carl Morton (Treasurer)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Promoting healthy communities by developing resources to protect and improve the environment, promote health, and prevent disease. Current Programs & Services: FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR FAILED SEPTIC SYSTEMS HCNEU offers the Decentralized Water Systems (DWS) Loan Program to individuals residing in Daggett, Duchesne, and Uintah counties. The DWS Loan Program provides 1% interest loans to eligible individuals to repair or replace a failed or failing onsite wastewater system (septic system). Eligible individuals must have HOUSEHOLD income at or below 60% of the gross non-metropolitan median household income for the State of Utah. STUDENTS WORKING AGAINST TOBACCO (SWAT) HCNEU offers scholarships to two students from each high school in the Uintah Basin who will take opportunities to make a difference with their peers, to prevent tobacco, and vaping, among other students at their schools and in their community. The purpose is to encourage students and peers to remain tobacco & drug free.

What it reported doing in 2025

Students have been working on activities to help their peers remain drug free during the 24/25 and for the 25/26 school years. We provided promotional products for them to hand out to students to promote being drug and alcohol free among their peers. They had a dinner with local elected officials to learn how to engage with leaders and make change to legislative policy. They were awarded scholarships at the end of the school year for their efforts, a total of $74,000 was awarded. We had one application for wastewater repairs, but they didn't complete all the application requirements, so no loan was awarded. The new director got new programs and software's and equipment in place to start functioning better as a new organization.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 83% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 90
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 63
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 84.1%; rating input score 84
  • 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: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 15.9%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.35; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 5.6%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 181.4% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -1.6% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 15.1% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 84.1% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $90K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • 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.

  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.