Mvna

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
410693895
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2015
Forms available
Form 990 2015
Location
Minneapolis, MN, USA
Phone
6126174600
Rating
61
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Home Health Care

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$18,813,210
Expenses
$17,453,386
Assets
$0
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2015. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JON PRYOR MD (BOARD CHAIR/PRESIDENT OF CORPORATION)
  • JEN VAN LIEW (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)

Highest reported compensation

  • JON PRYOR MD (BOARD CHAIR/PRESIDENT OF CORPORATION): $890,180 total reported compensation
  • LARRY KRYZANIAK (BOARD TREASURY/SECRETARY): $508,289 total reported compensation
  • KATHY WILDE (BOARD VICE CHAIR): $416,779 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2015. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Improving lives at every age through home and community health services.

What it reported doing in 2015

Community health services includes: wellness services are designed to meet worksite and community wellness needs. Services consist of annual flu vaccination clinics and biometric health screens (i.e. Cholesterol, diabetes, blood pressure, body mass index results, and one-to-one registered nurse consultation). Proceeds from these programs help to support other mission-focused programs provided by mvna. Jumpstartscreens was retitled in 2015 to jumpstart! Children's health. One program focus is on identifying and screening children ages 3 to 5 years old using a more comprehensive screening process and meeting the guidelines of the Minnesota department of education. The goal is to reach children who are at greatest risk for not being screened and to provide developmental and health interventions to prepare them for school success. The other focus is providing health screenings in the community for children ages 1-10 in hennepin county who are at risk for health issues due to poverty, minority status, or other psychosocial issues that impacts health equity, school readiness and school performance. Screenings take place at schools, childcare settings, preschools, homeless shelters and community sites.personal care attendant (pca) assessment program provides in-home clinical assessments performed by public health nurses (phns) to evaluate qualifications for pca services based on department of human services' guidelines. In addition, the phns provide clients with resources and referrals to other programs and services to help clients remain independent in their home and the community.school nurse consultation program works with charter schools throughout the metropolitan area guiding them towards safe, compliant and healthy learning environments for all students. Licensed school nurses advise school administrations in complying with state and federal requirements and best practices in school health. They create and help implement individual plans to meet the needs of students with special health needs, train staff, provide assessment and team input for special education, and refer to community resources. Ucare connect has two sub-programs: ucare connect-case coordination is an innovative health coverage plan for ucare members with a certified physical disability, developmental disability, and/or mental illness. It is a special needs basic care (snbc) program designed by the Minnesota department of human services (dhs). As a delegate for ucare, mvna's service area for case coordination is hennepin and anoka counties. The focus is on members who have been determined to require long-term case coordination beyond 120 days. The assigned case coordinator serves as that member's advocate, helping the member navigate complex social service and health care delivery systems. Ucare connect-complex case management provides telephonic services that are short-term with a maximum of 90 days. Registered nurses provide services for individuals 18-64 years-of-age that have a certified physical disability, developmental disability and/or mental illness. This program is designed by the Minnesota department of human services snbc. Nurses work with the clients to identify needs, facilitate care, promote primary care relationships and prevent unnecessary emergency room visits and hospitalizations. Health and wellness, education and advocacy are focuses with the goal of keeping clients independently functioning.ucare for seniors-complex case management, also known as "medicare advantage," is a program that provides telephonic assessments, support, and assistance to identified ucare for seniors clients 65 years of age and older who reside in Minnesota and western Wisconsin. Registered nurses provide telephonic complex case management services for individuals that have a primary diagnosis of a complex chronic condition including diabetes, chronic kidney disease and heart failure. Case management is provided to assist clients in accessing needed community resour

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 95% 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.
  • 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. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 72
  • Transparency & Controls: 67
  • Accountability: 32
  • Sustainability: 41
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 76.9%; rating input score 77
  • Program expense ratio: 83%; rating input score 83
  • Fundraising efficiency: $2.98 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • 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: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 7.2%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.2%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -8.8% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 76.9% of revenue deployed · 83% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 0 of 3 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $14.5M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $890K · 8 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $597K reported
  • Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes executive pay and related organizations
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2010 to 2015
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 3 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 15/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.