Healing Warriors Program

What it reported doing in 2024

Healing warriors program (hwp) became a 501(c)(3) in october 2012 and has been operating a nonprofit clinic in ft. Collins since july 2013. Our mission is to improve the wellness of service members and their families through non-narcotic care. We utilize a medical model, with program consults and client care specialist coordinating access to community resources and treatment modalities, including acupuncture, craniosacral therapy, healing touch, and coping kits tailored to a client specific treatment need. Services are free to veterans, active-duty members, and their family support. All these services have researched-based effectiveness in treating pain, anxiety, sleeplessness, ptsd, traumatic brain injury (tbi), suicide risk, and loss of connectedness. Healing warriors program is unique in the services it provides, with no one else in Colorado providing these services, and we have only found one other in the us providing similar services. Hwp currently has a 5-day-a-week clinic in fort collins and a once-a-week satellite clinic in aurora and Colorado springs. We maintain one monthly walk-in/popup clinic in denver. The satellite clinics are in counties with the highest percentage of veterans. We do aim to increase fundraising efforts to add additional clinic day to the satellite clinics. In addition hwp partners with other organizations on fundraising events, resource fairs, and in support of veterans through stand down and yellow ribbon events. We are part of a collective effort to meet the needs of Colorado veterans through being a recipient of the veterans assistance grant and the ssg fox suicide prevention grant (through the federal va), which helps increase access to non-narcotic care and decrease risk factors for suicide in service members. As of 12/31/2024, healing warriors program has delivered over 40,000 clinic sessions with measurable impact and symptom changes, pre- and post- treatment sessions for all three modalities. For 2024, clients reported the following decrease in symptoms. "healing touch: 67% decrease in anxiety, 60% decrease in emotional discomfort, and 50% decrease in physical pain "acupuncture: 52% decrease in anxiety, 49% decrease in emotional discomfort, and 50% decrease in physical pain. "cranial sacral therapy: 57% decrease in anxiety, 53% decrease in emotional discomfort, and 48% decrease in physical pain healing warriors program has been the recipient of many prestigious awards in recognition of the importance that healing warriors plays in veterans and their families lives. Among hwp's greatest honors has been to receive the newman's own 2018 award where healing warriors program was chosen as 1 of 5 veteran nonprofits nationally to be honored at the pentagon and presented with the award by the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general joseph dunford. In 2021, hwp executive director, ana yelen, won 3 prestigious awards, the 2021 bizwest media-women of distinction awards for non-profits, the 2021 bizwest notable women in non-profits and the aarp 2022 purpose prize fellows award. And with our newest recognition proclaiming april 15th, "healing warriors day" by jennifer arndt, mayor of fort collins, officially signed april 15, 2025.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 81.3%; rating input score 81
• Program expense ratio: 81.5%; rating input score 81
• Fundraising efficiency: $7.57 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• 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: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • 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: 0.2%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.16; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.12; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 7.6%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 19.2% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 19.8% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 17.3% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings