Healthy Start Coalition of Hardee Highlands and Polk Counties Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
593167649
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Bartow, FL, USA
Phone
8635349224
Rating
88
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$3,774,294
Expenses
$3,843,168
Assets
$3,433,445
Liabilities
$639,054

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

Leadership & pay

16 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • KATHY DOBSON (PAST PRESIDENT)
  • PATRICIA WIGGINS (VICE PRESIDENT (AS OF 5/2025))
  • LATRICE MOORE (PRESIDENT (PRES.-ELECT THRU 5/2025))
  • CHARLENE EDWARDS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • CHARLENE EDWARDS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $133,693 total reported compensation
  • MARAGRETTA DELGADO (FINANCE DIRECTOR): $59,136 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

To promote and support healthy pregnancies, babies, and families, by providing a maternal and child health system of care through community partnerships in hardee, highlands, and polk counties.

What it reported doing in 2024

Fetal infant mortality review (fimr) program: fimr is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and multisystem review of the events that occurred before, during, and after a pregnancy which led to a fetal death or the death of an infant. Fimr describes and defines the community's health, builds knowledge of the healthy start service delivery plan, improves communication, identifies gaps in services, and implements creative solutions to identified needs. The Florida fetal infant mortality review projects are organized under Florida statutes 766.101. The subcommittees within the fimr project are the case review team and community action group. These committees could use your valuable expertise and experience. The fimr case review team is a team of expert members from the health care sector and other systems of care in the community who review a summary of the case information to identify issues within the systems of care and make recommendations for community and systems change to improve the service to mothers, babies, and families. The fimr community action group is a diverse group of community leaders who review recommendations, assess their importance, and design, develop, and implement strategies for change to ensure that mothers and infants receive high-quality health care.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 99% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 64% for direct work, and 36% for grants.

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: 82
  • Transparency & Controls: 94
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 34
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 92.6%; rating input score 93
  • Program expense ratio: 90.8%; rating input score 91
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: -1.8%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.89; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.19; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 5%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 12.2% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 92.6% of revenue deployed · 90.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 8 filed program accomplishments · $3.5M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $134K · 16 people listed
  • Consistency: 32 of 32 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: 5 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 3 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.
  • 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 53/100.