Heart of the Valley Birth & Beyond Dba Community Doula Program

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
453735093
IRS 990 coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-N 2017
Location
Corvallis, OR, USA
Phone
5417602619
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Reproductive Health Care Facilities and Allied Services

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$485,058
Expenses
$582,455
Assets
$98,428
Liabilities
$42

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MARGARET KRIZ (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • MELISSA CHEYNEY (PRESIDENT)
  • KATIE MINICH (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • ROSLYN BURMOOD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • MARGARET KRIZ (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $30,304 total reported compensation
  • ELLEN TAPPON (INTERIM DIRECTOR): $19,648 total reported compensation
  • KATIE MINICH (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $9,620 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Heart of the valley birth & beyond 501(c)(3) (hvbb) serves pregnant and parenting families across linn, benton, lincoln, lane, polk, and marion counties. Since 2012, hvbb's mission has been to improve health equity and the well-being of pregnant and parenting families and their babies in the mid-willamette valley through advocacy, education, resource coordination, research, and the provision of direct services. We aim to decrease maternal and infant health inequities that begin at birth by providing culturally, socially, and linguistically matched doula care to the most underserved families in our community. We are committed to building community-based solutions to address the maternal health crisis in the united states and we are dedicated to sharing our experiences with families and communities striving for similar outcomes. A healthy community begins with a healthy birth, and we are committed to fostering this through comprehensive support and care for pregnant people and families.

What it reported doing in 2025

In 2025, the community doula program expanded community capacity to support healthy pregnancies and early parenting. We launched three community closets created in partnership with a local nonprofit, a birth center, and our own program office offering free diapers, wipes, clothing, and books to families in need. To further address material insecurity, we organized a community diaper drive and submitted two grant proposals aimed at establishing benton county's first national network diaper bank. These efforts strengthened local resource access and deepened our commitment to meeting families' practical needs with dignity and care. All of the accomplishments described here occurred alongside our standard doula hub services which focus on providing high-quality, culturally-reverent, and linguistically-match community doula services to any medicaid recipient in three counties who wants access to a doula. Our volume of practice in 2025 was, on average, 40 referrals per month.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 78% 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.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 86
  • Transparency & Controls: 84
  • Accountability: 77
  • Sustainability: 17
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 90.3%; rating input score 90
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 10th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -20.1%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.17; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 11.9%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 22.2% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 28.4% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 90.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 6 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $526K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $30K · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 21 of 22 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 6 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.

  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Independent members within voting members did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 52/100.