Green & Healthy Homes Initiative Inc

What it reported doing in 2024

Policy and innovation: ghhi works to advance polices and implement models to support sustainable resources for healthy housing, including developing and assessing new funding pathways, partnerships with sectors such as healthcare, and making the business case for investing in healthy housing and increasing local capacity. Ghhi provides technical assistance to asthma, household injury and other health prevention projects around the country, conducting data analysis and designing partnerships between housing and healthcare that can result in sustainable healthcare funded preventive programs. In 2024, ghhi continued its work on the $4.75 million New York healthy homes collaborative outcomes-based, asthma prevention financing project with affinity by molina that ghhi helped develop, has provided preventive services to 303 molina members with asthma to date. In North Carolina, ghhi produced the final report for blue cross blue shield of nc on the innovative fall prevention pilot ($1.3 million) that served 461 members. Blue cross blue shield will be analyzing the roi of the project in 2025. Ghhi continues to be the technical assistance provider for the $20 million detroit home repair fund, which utilizes eleven local community development organizations to provide critical repairs for over 300 detroit families. Ghhi also began an innovative project for a subset of detroit home repair fund homes, incorporating an assessment for electrification readiness in terms of home condition and resident interest. The project is funded by the national science foundation, in partnership with pecan street and the university of Michigan. In Ohio, ghhi completed its two years of work as the evaluator and technical assistance provider for the state health department's asthma program. Climate, energy and community resilience: the climate, energy and community resilience department is committed to direct services, research, advocacy, dissemination of best practices and technical and strategic guidance and partnerships that reduce greenhouse gas emissions through increased residential energy efficiency, electrification and decarbonization, and improved housing conditions. The department advances coordinated approaches to healthy, energy efficient, decarbonized, and affordable housing at the federal, state and local level by promoting interagency coordination and increased support for electrification. Through community level engagement, technical assistance services, and national policy leadership and advocacy, the department also seeks to achieve the adoption of electrification as a health and climate-based housing standard. In 2024, ghhi advocated for the adoption of zero emissions heating equipment standards (zehes) in Maryland and other state level advancement of policies for comprehensive healthy homes and energy efficiency upgrades, including the alignment of climate, health and housing sectors.data evaluation & data management: the data, evaluation and learning department uses data to learn, iterate and improve programming and services across all facets of ghhi and the broader healthy homes community. The department curates engagements with stakeholders around the country about the importance of data in our larger effort to create healthier homes and provides data on the return on investment for private and public stakeholder investments which ultimately result in healthier families. The data & evaluation team has worked with projects and organizations across the country to design evaluation plans and build custom data management systems to ensure the efficacy of programing and services. Access to real time data on activities, outputs and outcomes has allowed projects and organizations to operate with more efficiency while also creating pathways to learn and pivot on programmatic approach; thus, creating increased opportunities for successful outcomes and lasting impact for families and individuals.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 76.9%; rating input score 77
• Program expense ratio: 87.7%; rating input score 88
• Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
  • Compensation committee: Missing
  • Independent consultant: Missing
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Missing
  • 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: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 19th 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: 12.7%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.62; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.36; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 6.5%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 14.3% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 10.2% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings