Westchester Community Health Center
Legal name: Mount Vernon Neighborhood Health Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 133315508
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Mount Vernon, NY, US
- Phone
- (914) 699-7200
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Ambulatory Health Center, Community Clinic
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $39,351,164
- Expenses
- $41,977,270
- Assets
- $40,197,885
- Liabilities
- $10,217,454
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JUDITH WATSON (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- JUDITH WATSON (CEO): $442,056 total reported compensation
- MARKOS ASAMENEW (CMO): $301,140 total reported compensation
- EDWARD AMELEMAH (OB/GYN): $294,537 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 provide quality primary, preventative, and affordable health care services for everyone.
What it reported doing in 2024
The mount vernon health center network services include the following: adolescent medicine: the adolescent medicine department provides comprehensive health services and programs to address the prevention and treatment of adolescent health problems, reproductive health, tobacco control, obesity, adolescent growth development, eating disorders, and preventive health care services. Adult/internal medicine: the internal medicine department is staffed with physicians, physician assistants, family practice physicians, registered nurse and, medical assistants; providing comprehensive primary medical care. Referrals to specialists are made as needed. Mount vernon hospital is the admitting hospital for our internal medicine patients. 24 hour on call service is available.behavioral health: behavioral health services include substance abuse, mental health, HIV/AIDS education and prevention counseling, and other related mental health services. Clients can expect compassionate and individualized treatment from highly qualified professionals. Our staff of licensed social workers, counselors, psychiatrists is committed to offering the very best in behavioral health care. Child health (pediatrics): mtvnhc pediatric department provides comprehensive primary care for babies and children from newborn thru twelve years old (after which the patient "graduates" to our adolescent department). Our caring and experienced team of physicians and licensed practitioners offer routine well-child check-ups and health screenings, immunizations, school and sports examinations as well as hearing, vision and other evaluations. Mount vernon hospital is the admitting hospital for our mtvnhc patients, st. Josephs medical center for patients of yonkers community health center and white plains medical center for our greenburgh health center patients.dental: general dentistry services are provided. These services include diagnostic and treatment, consultations and referrals to specialists when needed. Dental services are provided to children from age 3 to adults.ob/gyn (women's health services): services include complete obstetrical care, as well as gynecological care. Other services include lamaze classes, breastfeeding classes, and mammogram screenings. Sound shore medical center in new rochelle is the admitting/delivery hospital for our mount vernon and yonkers health centers while white plains hospital medical center is the admitting/delivery hospital for our greenburgh health center patients.social services: in addition to addressing the various needs of the patient, the social worker also completes medicaid and pcap applications.specialty services: mtvnhc provides the following specialty services on-site: audiology, cardiology, dermatology, colposcopy, endocrinology, gastroenterology, endoscopy, nephrology, neurology, ophthalmology, orthopedics, otolaryngology, podiatry, surgery, urology, sonograms.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% 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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.6%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 78.3%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- 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; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th 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: -6.7%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.96; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.25; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.6%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 9 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 83.6% of revenue deployed · 78.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $32.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $442K · 19 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $3.1M reported
- Consistency: 39 of 39 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 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.
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 14/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 46/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 51/100.