Paragon Behavioral Health Connections

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
881541009
IRS 990 coverage
2023–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Lakewood, CO, US
Phone
(303)-691-6095
Rating
63
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Mental Health Treatment F31 Psychiatric, Mental Health Hospital

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$7,440,065
Expenses
$6,592,707
Assets
$2,115,869
Liabilities
$773,057

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

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CAMILLE HARDING (CEO/PRESIDENT)
  • SUSAN WALTON (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • CAMILLE HARDING (CEO/PRESIDENT): $161,896 total reported compensation
  • GEORGE HALVAS-BEGOVICH (CFO/TREASURER (THRU JAN 2025)): $132,117 total reported compensation
  • ERIKA OJEDA LOUVIER (CHIEF PEOPLE OFFICER): $122,661 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 is to create a compassionate, accessible alternative that prioritizes community needs and fosters genuine connections.

What it reported doing in 2024

Paragon behavioral health collaborative provides comprehensive behavioral health and crisis services designed to promote recovery, safety, and community stability in 26 counties across Colorado. Our continuum of care includes mobile crisis response dispatched through the 988 suicide and crisis lifeline, offering rapid, on-site intervention for individuals experiencing behavioral health emergencies. We operate community-based crisis stabilization services accessible to all clients, providing evidenced-based clinical interventions and connection to ongoing care.paragon delivers intensive in-home services for children and families, focusing on skill-building, emotional regulation, behavioral health interventions to address trauma, depression and anxiety. Across all programs, we integrate mental health and substance use treatment with wraparound supports that address social determinants of health, such as housing stability, employment, and access to community resources.paragon also delivers intensive outpatient services for substance use treatment and recovery, care management support, and mental wellness.in the past year, paragon served over 700 individuals through these programs, advancing our mission to deliver personalized care that uplifts our clients and cultivates supportive connections within our communities.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 94% 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.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 55
  • Transparency & Controls: 66
  • Accountability: 72
  • Sustainability: 41
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 48.4%; rating input score 48
  • Program expense ratio: 54.7%; rating input score 55
  • Fundraising efficiency: $244.46 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 11th 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: 11.4%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.32; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.37; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 8.8%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 136.7% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 54.5% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 70.7% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 6 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: 48.4% of revenue deployed · 54.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 6 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.6M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $162K · 9 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $103K reported
  • Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 5 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.
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 48/100.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 55/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 34/100.