Nassau County Mental Health Alcoholism Dba Starting Point Behavioral Healthcare
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 593029469
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Yulee, FL, USA
- Phone
- 9042258280
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alcohol, Drug and Substance Abuse, Dependency Prevention and Treatment
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $12,494,010
- Expenses
- $10,682,089
- Assets
- $9,731,173
- Liabilities
- $3,950,069
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DAMON SCHNEIDER (PRESIDENT)
- CHERIE BILLINGS (VICE PRESIDENT)
- LAUREEN PAGEL (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- AKUA OWUSU (MEDICAL DIRECTOR): $195,040 total reported compensation
- LAUREEN PAGEL (CEO): $149,056 total reported compensation
- ALEXANDRA JOHNSON (DIRECTOR OF ADVANCED NURSING & ADMINISTRATION): $148,572 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 deliver unmatched behavioral health services. The organization will be a vital part of our community, committed to world class service and the provider of choice for first coast residents and referrers. Our motto is "healing begins here."
What it reported doing in 2024
To provide adult substance abuse program consisting of intervention and treatment services for adult residents of nassau county who have an identified substance abuse problem or who may be at-risk for substance abuse. Programming includes individual and group counseling (anger management, parenting, women's empowerment, relapse prevention, dbt skills, women's substance abuse, mrt group, co-occurring, and working in recovery), outreach, HIV testing and pre and post-test counseling. Approximately 1,250 clients are served annually.
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 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 66
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75.9%; rating input score 76
- Program expense ratio: 88.8%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 10th 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; 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: 14.5%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.91; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.41; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.5%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.7% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.4% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.1% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 75.9% of revenue deployed · 88.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $9.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $195K · 18 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 22 of 23 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- 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: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 27/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.