GoochlandCares
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 541967650
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Goochland, VA, USA
- Phone
- 8045566260
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Health Treatment Facilities, Primarily Outpatient
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $7,511,301
- Expenses
- $6,989,817
- Assets
- $15,240,523
- Liabilities
- $126,763
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
25 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Harry Baldwin (Vice President)
- Robert Bennett MD (President)
- Vernon Fleming (Past President)
- Andrea Ahonen (Chief Executive Officer)
Highest reported compensation
- Andrea Ahonen (Chief Executive Officer): $189,850 total reported compensation
- Adair Frayser (Major Gifts Officer): $145,753 total reported compensation
- Diane Reale (Chief Operating Officer): $134,181 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
GoochlandCares (GC) provides basic human services for local individuals who need help with healthcare, housing, food, clothing, and domestic violence services, providing a safety net for 2,377 Goochland residents and their families in 2025.
What it reported doing in 2025
Medical Clinic- Provides comprehensive medical treatment and follow-up for acute and chronic conditions with the support of a team of 7 volunteer medical providers from specialty practices ranging from general medicine to cardiology to Pharm D. Our Medical Clinic performs routine lab draws and specific point-of-care testing such as EKGs and HgA1c labs for the uninsured population in our service area. We have community partners to connect medical patients to vision screenings, mammograms, and colorectal cancer screenings, in addition to referrals to outside specialists who participate in charity care programs. We have a Food as Medicine Program that connects clients with healthy food pantry options and optional dietary coaching via tele-health visits. Each patient encounter includes a thorough medication review, assessments, and treatment planning. In-person Spanish interpreter services are offered for every clinic visit. Active patients are seen annually at a minimum for routine labs and a provider visit. The Medical Clinic also partners with Reynolds Community College to provide a community health practicum for nursing students each semester.Dental Clinic- Provides comprehensive dental care services with one staff dentist, two staff hygienists, and two dental assistants supporting a group of about 5 volunteer dentists. Two of our dental staff members are fluent in Spanish. Treatment plans include imaging studies, routine hygiene visits, extractions, restorations, and dentures. The Dental Clinic also partners with Virginia Commonwealth University to provide dental and hygiene students with community health practicums every semester.Our Dental Clinic treats both uninsured and Medicaid patients.Mental Health Services- Included in the clinic with one contracted social worker for talk therapy available once a week and one volunteer Psych NP practitioner who supports client mental health with the addition of a medication management clinic once a month. In-house Mental Health Services include assessments, talk therapy, option for medication management, and at least annual self-evaluation using the K10 tool to monitor progress of therapy. Additionally, clients can be referred to our local Community Service Board for more intensive treatment planning. Mental Health Services are also available via telehealth with our NP and the Virginia Telemental Health Initiative. In 2025, health care programs provided 4,064 visits.In 2025, GC medical transportation drove over 34,050 miles and provided 1,099 rides for patients to visit health care providers in Goochland County, Henrico County, and Richmond.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 81% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76.4%; rating input score 76
- Program expense ratio: 81.8%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: $10.74 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.9%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.18; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.4%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.1% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.7% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 76.4% of revenue deployed · 81.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 19 of 19 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $5.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $190K · 25 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $197K reported
- Consistency: 35 of 36 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 38/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 48/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 30/100.