HealthLinc
Legal name: Healthlinc Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 352147791
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Valparaiso, IN, USA
- Phone
- 2194627173
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $90,285,442
- Expenses
- $89,112,309
- Assets
- $68,100,795
- Liabilities
- $19,976,393
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
21 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MELISSA MITCHELL (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- USAMA MOUSTAFA (PHYSICIAN): $566,075 total reported compensation
- MELISSA MITCHELL (CEO): $449,985 total reported compensation
- LAWRENCE RAMUNNO (CMO): $406,384 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To improve the health of our communities by providing quality, affordable, and accessible healthcare.
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization provides a full spectrum of comprehensive health care services throughout the life cycle, and makes those services available regardless of a patient's ability to pay. Its services are culturally and linguistically appropriate for the target population. Included in the organization's approach to primary care are on-site disease screening, diagnostic laboratory services, preventive services, immunizations, social services and supportive counseling, family planning, health education, case management, transportation services, asthma prevention, and child development programs. In addition, the center provides preventive dental services including prophylaxis, x-rays, fillings, extractions, and denture fittings. Diagnostic laboratory, radiology services, emergency services, and inpatient care are provided by st. Josephs, st catherines, northwest hospital, franciscan health and memorial hospitals. Specialty care is provided by a network of over 130 specialists that have entered into agreements with the organization to accept their referrals and charge uninsured patients on a sliding fee scale. Since its inception, healthlinc, inc. Has provided primary medical, dental and mental health services to over 42,000 uninsured and underinsured patients.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 87% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.7%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 86.2%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 65th 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: 1.3%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.76; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.29; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.4%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.6% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.9% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.6% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 12 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 83.7% of revenue deployed · 86.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $76.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $566K · 21 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $4.2M reported
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- 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: 8 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 38/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 58/100.