North Fork Valley Community Health Board Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 770651881
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Hazard, KY, USA
- Phone
- 6064393557
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $11,497,889
- Expenses
- $10,407,605
- Assets
- $9,169,642
- Liabilities
- $1,233,391
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
People named in this filing
- DARRYL PARKER (CHAIR)
- DON PORTER (VICE-CHAIR)
- RALPH HOSKINS (SECRETARY/TREASURER)
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
To provide comprehensive and affordable primary health care and related services to the residents of perry, knott, letcher, breathitt, and leslie counties and the surrounding Kentucky counties.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization is a joint project established in 2004 as a community based federally qualified health center under a co-application made by the north fork valley community health board and the university of Kentucky college of medicine. The health center has clinics in hazard, Kentucky (perry county) and in 2009 expanded its service area to include the june buchanon clinic in hindman, Kentucky (knott county). The organization provided approximately $92,101 in charity care at cost in fye25.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 76% 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
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: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.4%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 95.4%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.5%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.88; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.3% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.4% of revenue deployed · 95.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $9.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.