Salus Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 853179531
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Lansing, MI, USA
- Phone
- 5175804593
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $170,031
- Expenses
- $162,303
- Assets
- $118,136
- Liabilities
- $2,125
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KC GARCIA (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MICK TETI-BEAUDIN (SECRETARY)
- KATHERINE HEVERAN (PROGRAM DIRE)
- GEOFFREY JOHNS (TREASURER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Salus center builds and serves an inclusive 2slgbtqia+ community in the greater lansing area. We envision a greater lansing community where 2slgbtqia+ people thrive as our whole, authentic selves.
What it reported doing in 2025
Salus center hosts 12 peer support groups with 19 monthly meetings, 8 other recurring monthly events, and bi-weekly resource hours. Through resource hours, the center distributed health and wellness resources ranging from hygiene products and menstrual products to emergency contraception, harm reduction items, and gender affirming items to hundreds of people in the lansing area. The center hosted free tax clinics, passport services, and the secretary of state mobile unit for events during resource hours. Through work as part of the gender affirmation project, the salus center supported transgender and nonbinary people getting access to financial and logistical support for legal name and gender marker changes. The salus center held a second annual adult prom and a third annual trans day of visibility celebration to build and affirm the 2slgbtqia+ community in the greater lansing area. Additionally, the center collaborated with various other local organizations, such as Michigan state universitys gender and sexuality campus center, lansing area AIDS network, the capital area district library, and ingham county health department. By attending and tabling at 25 community events, the salus center connected with thousands of additional people in the greater lansing area.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
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: 98
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.5%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.5%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.73; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.9% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 24.9% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 95.5% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $162K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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 43/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.