Healthy Acadia
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 270548057
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Ellsworth, ME, USA
- Phone
- 2076677171
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Health Program (Includes General Health and Wellness Promotion Services)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,256,223
- Expenses
- $5,915,444
- Assets
- $4,173,879
- Liabilities
- $1,446,393
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- ELSPETH FLEMINGS (EXECUTIVE DI): $146,972 total reported compensation
- BECKY GUYTON (FINANCIAL DI): $96,170 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We empower people and organizations as we build healthy communities together.
What it reported doing in 2024
Health promotion and management this area of programming, funded by private foundation, state and federal grants, includes initiatives to improve community supports across a wide range of health needs including cancer patient navigation, stress reduction, diabetes prevention programming, chronic disease and pain self- management and to barrier removal for an assortment of health challenges. Programing focuses on disease prevention, management, and access to treatment, including for those at-risk of, or suffering from, diabetes, cancer, osteoporosis, arthritis, stroke, heart disease, and more. Activities include the dissemination of educational materials; hosting educational classes, training and professional development for health providers, educators and students, business owners and employees, strengthening linkages between primary care providers, health systems, community based organizations and health resources. These activities are coordinated by staff with training and education in community health. This work covers the geographic area of hancock and Washington counties, me.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 75% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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.
The verdict
STRONG - 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: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.6%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 82.1%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: $51.49 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 79; 79th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 23rd 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: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.4%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.71; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.35; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.1%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.4% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.3% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.5% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 77.6% of revenue deployed · 82.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 13 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $4.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $147K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.