Katahdin Valley Health Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237411014
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Patten, ME, USA
- Phone
- 2075383700
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Ambulatory Health Center, Community Clinic
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $34,647,796
- Expenses
- $32,431,525
- Assets
- $53,446,077
- Liabilities
- $17,595,960
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CLAUDETTE HUMPHREY (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- CLAUDETTE HUMPHREY (CEO): $510,282 total reported compensation
- JEAN HAMLIN (PHYSICIAN): $299,475 total reported compensation
- ERIN CHANDLER (PHYSICIAN): $261,110 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Katahdin Valley Health Center (KVHC) provides excellent, affordable, responsive, inclusive, affirming, and equitable healthcare and social services that center individuals, families, and communities. Our Mission: Katahdin Valley Health Center will provide community accessible, quality healthcare with compassion and dignity. Katahdin Valley Health Center (KVHC) is a not-for-profit organization providing more than 25,000 Mainers with primary and behavioral healthcare, dental, specialty, wellness, and needed support services. Our network is made up of 9 federally qualified health centers throughout Maine that bring health services to underserved people in need throughout our service area. We provide judgment-free, high-quality healthcare without regard to race, religion, orientation, gender identity, immigration status, or ability to pay. We turn no one away. Our Mission and Vision.
What it reported doing in 2025
The center provides health care services for the people of all ages from the surrounding area, central and northern Maine.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 86% 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.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68.6%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 73%; rating input score 73
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 6 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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: 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: 6.4%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.65; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.33; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.8%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.1% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 68.6% of revenue deployed · 73% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $23.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $510K · 16 people listed · 6 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $4.9M reported
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 48/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 38/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 51/100.