Heart City Health Center Inc

Overview

Mission

Heart city health center, inc. (heart city) is a non-profit, federally qualified health center (fqhc) providing affordable, high quality, primary health, behavioral health, dental and pharmaceutical care to residents of elkhart and surrounding counties. Heart city health center offers a sliding fee scale based on income and family size for the uninsured, under-insured and also accept medicaid, medicare and some private insurances. Heart city is committed to reducing health disparities among residents by providing professional and respectful service to elkhart and surrounding counties through education and high quality primary medical care for those in need and experiencing barriers to traditional health care. The majority of heart city's patients are at 100% or below the federal poverty guidelines, and almost 50% of patients are under the age of 18. Heart city is one of the few sites in the elkhart area that provides services to medicaid patients and the uninsured population.

Operating model

Revenue model

Other-operating. 77% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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: 67
• Transparency & Controls: 79
• Accountability: 95
• Sustainability: 11
• Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Details

• Where the money goes: 81.2% of revenue deployed · 64.6% of spending went to programs
• Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
• Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $11.8M in reported program spending
• Leadership: top reported pay $377K · 18 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
• Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.6M reported
• Consistency: 39 of 39 current checks pass
• Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
• Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
• Contacts: How to reach this organization
• Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
• Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
• 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

• High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
• High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
• Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
• High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.
• High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.
• High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.