New Mexico Alliance of Health Councils

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
472939987
IRS 990 coverage
2021–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2020, Form 990-N 2015
Location
Santa Fe, NM, USA
Phone
5055774889
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Community Health Systems

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$716,223
Expenses
$633,814
Assets
$758,543
Liabilities
$53,683

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

People named in this filing

  • GINNY ADAME (DIRECTOR)
  • VALERIA ALARCON (EXECUTIVE DI)
  • LETICIA BERNAL (DIRECTOR)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The mission of the New Mexico alliance of health councils, as chartered in nm law and policy by hb 137, is: to improve the health of all new mexicans by supporting and strengthening county and tribal health councils, advocating for health equity, and by providing a strong voice for community and public health. This is accomplished through planning, leading community collaboration among agencies, public policy work, and sustainable system development.

What it reported doing in 2024

The New Mexico alliance of health councils (nmahc) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization supporting and advocating for new mexicos 42 health councils and their community partners. Nmahc's digital product + digital programs allocate additional funding to contract an it/programmer to focus on nmahc's digital priorities, which include but are not limited to upgrading share nm (statewide resource directory), revamp nmhac's website, implement an intranet or org-wide project management tool, lead the communications and learning hub (mighty networks), and lead the internal it, and google workspace needs. Marketing + communications for advocacy marketing and communications is central to both advocacy and fundraising efforts, the alliance implemented a marketing and communications strategic plan that has increased visibility of the meaningful work of health councils through local radio interviews, editorials, and podcasts, enhanced our community mobilizing for advocacy efforts and increased recognition of the impactful work of health councils and the alliance. Digital products the alliances digital product, share nm, is the most comprehensive statewide resource directory and a digital platform, providing access to over 14 thousand resources statewide. In 2024, we were able to provide navigational support to over 900 community members seeking specific needs. The alliance secured funding to improve the importing upload mechanism for updating the directory through our local partnerships. The alliance secured a 50,000 two-year contract from unite us, which will conclude at the end of 2025. These funds are allocated to cover operations, software, and it /programmer support to run sharenm and for tech troubleshooting. Digital programs key performance indicators for fy2024: increased click rate to the alliance website by 18k a 54% increase, the advocacy webpage is the most visited at 6 minutes social media reach, linkedin at 64k a 50% increase, fb at 8.2k at a 72% increase, instagram at 2k at a 69% rate 64k engaged via email campaigns, at a 26% increase 31 news features and 32 radio features mighty networks, a digital platform, has been designed and implemented to serve a centralized communications and learning hub in service of 42 county and tribal health councils. This serves as an efficient avenue for the alliance to deliver on its services and support to health councils in a more streamlined manner. This process and tool was informed by health councils as a critical need. The health council hub provides them with access to grant opportunities, training/ webinars, public health resources-data-guidelines, a general feed for health councils to share resources as well, a robust resource library and toolkits, events and advocacy calls to action, and it provides the ability to network/ collaborate with nearby or other health councils and chat individually. In 2024, the alliance successfully enlisted strong legislative backing that secured a 3m one-time-allocation for health councils, the first in 13 years and a 423% increase since 2010. This funding secured 109 health coucnil coordinator jobs in the public health sector in New Mexico. The alliance is deeply grateful to its funding partners who make this work possible in service of 33 county and 10 tribal health councils and new mexicos public health sector and infrastructure, in service of communities statewide (tribal, urban, rural and frontier). Through critical partnerships the alliance team continues to fulfill its mission and deliverables in service of new mexicos health councils, for a healthy and thriving New Mexico.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 76% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 65
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 94
  • Sustainability: 59
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 65.2%; rating input score 65
  • Program expense ratio: 73.6%; rating input score 74
  • Fundraising efficiency: $9.49 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • 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: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • 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: 11.5%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.2; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 17.4% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 26.4% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 37.7% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 65.2% of revenue deployed · 73.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $467K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 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.

Key Signals

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

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 36/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Conflict-of-interest policy not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.