Potomac River Clinic
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 541924115
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2023331403
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Specialized Education Institutions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $653,174
- Expenses
- $766,554
- Assets
- $313,067
- Liabilities
- $59,028
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jaynie Lilley (President)
- Nancy Mellon (Vice President/Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Julie Bedford (Director)
- Jackie Mahoozi (Director)
- Sarah Halpert (Director)
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
Potomac River Clinics mission is to equip children and adults with hearing loss and their families with a foundation for lifelong learning through listening and spoken language and to build productive partnerships in research, professional training, and collaborative outreach.
What it reported doing in 2024
Potomac River Clinic is a private, non-profit Auditory-Verbal Center with specific expertise in the oral language development of children and adults with hearing loss. The practice works with families and professionals to achieve optimal outcomes using a transdisciplinary team of professionals working in audiology, deaf education, and speech-language pathology. The team is experienced with state-of-the-art hearing technology including hearing aids, cochlear implants, and FM systems. Team members act as coaches and guides for families to support development of auditory skills, to facilitate spoken language, to create supportive listening environments, and to integrate listening and language into the routines of family life. Potomac River Clinic is committed to meeting the needs of underserved children within the population including those from non-English speaking families, children with additional special needs, children of culturally deaf families, and children from lower socio-economic groups. The following services are provided: Assessment and evaluation, assistive technology, specialized instruction, speech-language pathology, audiology, and professional training. There are approximately 300 clients attending.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 63% 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 66
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 89.1%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -17.4%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.41; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.19; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 89.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 13 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $683K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.