Howard Brown Health
Legal name: Howard Brown Health Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 362894128
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Chicago, Illinois, US
- Phone
- 773.388.1600
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $217,487,912
- Expenses
- $206,296,710
- Assets
- $187,752,928
- Liabilities
- $57,171,861
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
28 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Robin R Gay (INTERIM PRESIDENT AND CEO (THROUGH 3/2025); CHIEF DENTAL OFFICER)
- Travis Gayles (PRESIDENT AND CEO (EFFECTIVE 3/2025))
Highest reported compensation
- Patrick Gibbons (CHIEF MEDICAL DIRECTOR (DEPARTED 6/2025)): $365,655 total reported compensation
- Robin R Gay (INTERIM PRESIDENT AND CEO (THROUGH 3/2025); CHIEF DENTAL OFFICER): $359,106 total reported compensation
- Angela D Shrestha (PSYCHIATRIST): $338,249 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Howard Brown Health delivers care that respects and values you, just as you are. Regardless of age, race, sexual identity or your ability to pay – our staff is dedicated to helping you live your best life.
What it reported doing in 2024
Behavioral health: howard brown health center provides behavioral health services through counseling, psychiatry and psychotherapy. Experienced and licensed counselors, social workers, psychiatrists and psychologists provide individual, couples, family, and group therapies, including substance abuse treatment and violence recovery services. Currently we receive funding from the health resources and services administration, chicago department of public health, Illinois department of human services, and corporate/foundation sources to provide behavioral health services. For 2025, 18,850 unduplicated patients accessed behavioral health services for 7,676 visits.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 91% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.5%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 89.1%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.83 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th 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: 5.1%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.91; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.3; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.6%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.5% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.5% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.9% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 85.5% of revenue deployed · 89.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $183.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $366K · 28 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $23.6M reported
- Consistency: 49 of 49 current checks pass
- Schedules: 12 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 16 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 7 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 15/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 55/100.