Rocking Horse Community Health Center

Legal name: Rocking Horse Children's Health Center

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
311593544
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Springfield, Ohio, US
Phone
(937) 324-1111
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Health Treatment Facilities, Primarily Outpatient

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$32,174,950
Expenses
$30,985,504
Assets
$23,769,594
Liabilities
$3,413,386

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

Leadership & pay

20 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CYNTHIA RICHARDS (BOARD PRESIDENT)
  • CANDACE COPELAND (BOARD VICE PRESIDENT)
  • DR YAMINI TEEGALA (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)

Highest reported compensation

  • DR YAMINI TEEGALA (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $472,369 total reported compensation
  • DR CAROL BARLAGE (CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER): $334,309 total reported compensation
  • DR ANDRES BARRERO ORTIZ (PHYSICIAN): $265,977 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Rocking Horse Community Health Center creates a caring environment where quality services empower adults and children to improve their physical and emotional health

What it reported doing in 2025

Rocking horse community health center is a medical home where families feel the embrace of compassions and are designed to offer help, healing and hope to each person who walks through the door. From new life to long life, rocking horse welcomes each patient with open arms and provides them the care they need and deserve. Obstetrics, developmental screenings, parent education, children with special healthcare needs, behavioral health, support groups, dental and vision services, chronic disease management, medicaid assistance, chiropractic, medication-assisted substance abuse treatment, on-site pharmacy, and coordination of community resources are just a few of the services rocking horse community health center provides. During 2025, rocking horse provided servicesto 16,302 persons through 77,728 visits.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 74% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 81
  • Transparency & Controls: 85
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 37
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 82.1%; rating input score 82
  • Program expense ratio: 85%; rating input score 85
  • Fundraising efficiency: $30.64 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • 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: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • 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: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 3.7%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.77; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 6.7%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 11.4% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 9 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: 82.1% of revenue deployed · 85% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $26.3M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $472K · 20 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 8 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 44/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 59/100.