Gunnison Valley Health Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
261243347
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Gunnison, CO, USA
Phone
9706428406
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Health Support Services

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$4,014,025
Expenses
$3,923,341
Assets
$7,240,072
Liabilities
$542,556

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

Leadership & pay

16 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JASON AMRICH (GVH CEO)
  • JENNIFER BIRNIE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • CAROL MAY (PRESIDENT)
  • STEVE OGDEN (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • WILLIAM SULLIVAN (PRESIDENT ELECT)

Highest reported compensation

  • JASON AMRICH (GVH CEO): $536,208 total reported compensation
  • DR STEPHANIE PORTER MD (DOCTOR & HOSPITAL CMO): $357,730 total reported compensation
  • ANGELA KOBEL (GVH CFO): $261,400 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Support gunnison valley health in the delivery of high quality healthcare in gunnison county and surrounding areas. Our vision is to inspire the recognition of gunnison valley health as an innovative, (continued on schedule o)award-winning healthcare system know for clinical excellence, comprehensive patient care and delivering results that promote lifelong health and wellness.

What it reported doing in 2024

In 2024, the foundation supported school-based clinician services at the gunnison watershed school district and western Colorado university, hired a new bilingual patient navigator to expand health equity, nursing scholarships for advanced education programs, tuition assistance for emt courses, support for hospice patients and relatives, advanced medical services for home health patients and pre and post partum services for spanish speaking mothers receiving support through the gvh family birth center, funds to support employees with linkedin learning and headspace subscriptions and workforce development scholarships for nurses and behavioral health therapists seeking advanced education. (continued on schedule o)in 2024, the gunnison valley health foundation continued to raise funds for a capital campaign "seconds save lives" to build a new ems/paramedics station.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 79% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 83
  • Transparency & Controls: 68
  • Accountability: 75
  • Sustainability: 50
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 93.2%; rating input score 93
  • Program expense ratio: 94.9%; rating input score 95
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 96.8%; rating input score 97; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 73.3%; rating input score 73; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 2.3%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.85; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 6.1%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 34.1% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 23.3% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 13% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 93.2% of revenue deployed · 94.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 11 of 15 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $3.7M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $536K · 16 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 27 of 28 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 10 filed related-organization links
  • 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 46/100.