North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
203452075
IRS 990 coverage
2015–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Raleigh, NC, USA
Phone
3365438050
Rating
86
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Alliance/Advocacy Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$4,132,292
Expenses
$3,818,640
Assets
$1,145,993
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • LILLIE ARMSTRONG (PRESIDENT)
  • CATHERINE PAQUETTE (VICE-PRESIDENT)
  • ELYSE POWELL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • SHANNON BULLOCK (COO & GRANTS MANAGER): $73,616 total reported compensation
  • ELYSE POWELL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $73,000 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Encourage and motivate the implementation of harm reduction interventions, public health strategies, drug policy transformation, and justice reform in North Carolina and the american south through leadership, advocacy, resource and policy development, and education.

What it reported doing in 2024

During 2024, the North Carolina harm reduction coalition served over 5,668 people with life saving overdose prevention services. We further made over 16,919 contacts with those individuals, reflecting a depth of relationship with these folks. Nchrc takes a health hub model to its services, providing numerous on site and wrap around support services that are unique to each sites models and needs. These range from on sight food pantries, physician and nursing teams, hygiene and shower access, onsight therapy, case management, and linkages to evidence based treatment, moud prescribing, peer support, post overdose response, housing services, and more. Nchrc distributed over 16,000 naloxone kits in 2024. Nchrc also formed a first in the nation partnership with the North Carolina dhhs to be the statewide purchaser for naloxone and other harm reduction supplies for organizations across the state. Nchrc also operates a mail-based naloxone distribution program lastly nchrc continues to be a thought leader in the space, training state and local partners on how to best combat the overdose epidemic. It is regularly invited to consult, and co-operates the North Carolina technical assistance center.

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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 87
  • Transparency & Controls: 86
  • Accountability: 91
  • Sustainability: 48
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 83.5%; rating input score 84
  • Program expense ratio: 90.4%; rating input score 90
  • Fundraising efficiency: $824.15 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 7th 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: 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: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 7.6%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.3; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 3.8%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 17.2% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 17% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 83.5% of revenue deployed · 90.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.5M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $74K · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 24 of 25 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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.

Key Signals

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

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.