Northwest Colorado Health

Legal name: Northwest Colorado Visiting Nurse Association

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
840564998
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Steamboat Springs, CO, US
Phone
970-871-7609
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Home Health Care

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$37,266,464
Expenses
$20,034,277
Assets
$46,007,062
Liabilities
$19,340,780

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

Leadership & pay

18 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ERIKA MURPHY (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • REBECCA LEWIS (PRESIDENT)
  • STEPHANIE EINFELD (CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • STEPHANIE EINFELD (CEO): $254,394 total reported compensation
  • MADELINE CONNICK (DENTAL DIRECTOR): $220,930 total reported compensation
  • DIANA HORNUNG (MEDICAL DIRECTOR): $207,617 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Our Mission

What it reported doing in 2024

Home services: northwest Colorado health's home services department provides home health and hospice services across moffat and routt counties. These services provide skilled, compassionate and personalized care in the comfort and security of familiar surroundings on a sliding fee scale. Every year, the agency provides thousands of dollars of charity care to uninsured patient who cannot afford to pay and is often unable to collect payments for services provided to insured individuals (often times under-insured). The rural nature of our community continues to drive the need for care in the home. In 2024, northwest Colorado health's home health staff provided 402 episodic care periods to home-bound clients throughout northwest Colorado. Hospice and palliative care provide compassionate, quality care and enables terminally-ill patients to approach the end of life with dignity and comfort. In 2024, northwest Colorado health hospice staff provided 2,460 hospice days across northwest Colorado and traveled over 250,000 miles across the region to provide these services.

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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 60
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 91
  • Sustainability: 71
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 42.3%; rating input score 42
  • Program expense ratio: 78.3%; rating input score 78
  • Fundraising efficiency: $805.87 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Pass
    • 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; 66th 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: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 46.2%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.3; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.42; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 7.3%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 9.7% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 10 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 4 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: 42.3% of revenue deployed · 78.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $15.7M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $254K · 18 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $535K reported
  • Consistency: 39 of 39 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 9 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: 8 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 42/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 34/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.