Novus Health Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
320084051
IRS 990 coverage
2018–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025, Form 990-N 2017
Location
Saint Louis, MO, USA
Phone
3146520100
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
AIDS Research

Reported finances

Revenue
$13,030,700
Expenses
$14,863,550
Assets
$14,611,187
Liabilities
$7,037,014

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

16 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • KAYTLIN REEDY ROGIER (PRESIDENT)
  • DALE WRIGLEY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • MARK SCHEPERLE (PHYSICIAN): $367,543 total reported compensation
  • MATTHEW CARY (CLINICAL CARE SUPERVISOR): $221,886 total reported compensation
  • ERIN DUVALL (PSYCHIATRIC NURSE PRACTION): $205,092 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Novus health achieves its mission through the vision to become a trusted, patient-centered medical model home, providing equitable access to primary care and linking individuals to the specialty care and preventative services that are customized to their needs. We also aim to engage and collaborate with individuals to meet their overall health goals, while working to provide tools and resources that ensure ongoing retention in and adherence to all points of care, prevention, and treatment.

What it reported doing in 2025

Primary care & behavioral health services: novus health serves as a primary care and specialty care medical provider. In 2025 novus health provided care to 1,912 unique patients, conducting over 7,300 clinical visits. Novus health also provides comprehensive HIV care, and in 2025 served well over 350 patients. The clinic works to improve our community's health and well-being, offering trauma informed care in a holistic approach that meets patients where they are. Integrating medical care with behavioral health and psychiatric services novus provided over 800 clinical visits to both internal and external medical patients. The integration of services expanded the reach of the clinic and provides clients/patients the opportunity to access both medical and behavioral healthcare under one roof.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 96% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 64% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 87
  • Transparency & Controls: 75
  • Accountability: 77
  • Sustainability: 17
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 95.4%; rating input score 95
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Pass
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -14.1%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.98; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.48; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 8.7%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 16.2% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 23.1% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 95.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $14.2M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $368K · 16 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $286K reported
  • Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 31/100.