Montgomery County Language Minority Health Project Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 311591753
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Silver Spring, MD, USA
- Phone
- 3019626173
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Health Program (Includes General Health and Wellness Promotion Services)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,473,512
- Expenses
- $2,442,034
- Assets
- $5,876,493
- Liabilities
- $142,073
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- IVONNE RIVERA (PRESIDENT)
- CESAR PALACIOS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- CESAR PALACIOS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $258,747 total reported compensation
- RUTH REECE (NURSE PRACTITIONER): $148,639 total reported compensation
- NIHINLOLA OLAIGBE (NURSE PRACTITIONER): $133,961 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 serve as a community health center that provides comprehensive, coordinated, and patient-centered compassionate care.
What it reported doing in 2024
Primary care: proyecto salud provides patient-centered primary health care focusing on patient needs. Through comprehensive primary care services, patients are assessed following the clinic protocol for disease prevention and management. Care is provided by licensed primary care physicians and nurse practitioners. Laboratory: proyecto salud provides laboratory services to its patients at affordable prices. Gynecological services: gynecology services focus on comprehensive women's health services. The clinic offers preventive care, routine screeenings, and treatment for a wide reange of health needs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 68% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 72.8%; rating input score 73
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 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: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.3%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.41; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 31.7%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.4% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 74% of revenue deployed · 72.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $259K · 13 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $138K reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 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.
- 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 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.