NFI North
Legal name: NFI North Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 043161042
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Contoocook, NH, US
- Phone
- 603.746.7550
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Children's, Youth Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $50,194,584
- Expenses
- $49,397,151
- Assets
- $30,852,192
- Liabilities
- $7,634,336
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PATRICIA FILLIO (PRESIDENT (AS OF 10/2024) & DIRECTOR)
- SUANNE NADER (DIRECTOR, PRESIDENT (THRU 10/2024))
- LUKE REYNARD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- DR PAUL DANN (FORMER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- DR STACEY CHARRON GILLESPIE (AGENCY CLINICAL DIRECTOR): $392,696 total reported compensation
- DR PAUL DANN (FORMER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $348,642 total reported compensation
- LUKE REYNARD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $202,077 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
NFI North provides the highest-quality services to children and adults with behavioral or mental health challenges, designed to meet their individual needs, with teams of therapists, teachers and other health professionals helping each person overcome obstacles to independence and reach his or her personal goals.
What it reported doing in 2024
Nfi north provided residential and educational services to children designed to successfully integrate clients back into their home and community. Services include weekly individual therapy, group therapy, family therapy, specialized treatment, and regular and special education services.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 99% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.6%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 89.9%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- 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; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 1.6%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.62; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.25; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.4%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.6% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.6% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.5% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 88.6% of revenue deployed · 89.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $44.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $393K · 16 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $3.5M reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 4 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 49/100.