Santa Fe Birth Center

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
822021224
IRS 990 coverage
2023–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-N 2020
Location
Santa Fe, NM, USA
Phone
5057805030
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Hospital, Specialty

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$445,687
Expenses
$348,872
Assets
$104,227
Liabilities
$67,484

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MERIA LOEKS (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • MERIA LOEKS (PRESIDENT): $2,700 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Santa fe birth center's mission is to increase good outcomes and positive birth experiences by expanding place-of-birth choices. Santa fe birth center is a non profit 501c3 organization providing a vital choice for the transformative experience of childbirth. It is santa fe's only birth center, adding an essential birthing alternative to hospital or home birth options. Santa fe birth center provides a safe, satisfying, cost effective birth place that promotes a midwifery model of care for eligible clients of all cultural traditions.

What it reported doing in 2024

Childbirth is a life-changing event. Santa fe birth centers vision is to provide a unique opportunity for birthing people to express their individual birthing style autonomously in a facility designed solely for the physiological process of birth. Our goal is to provide a beautiful, appealing center that is sustainable over time. The setting for birth can make the difference in having a fulfilling childbirth experience. The center is a calm, safe space, encouraging one's inner strength and innate birthing ability. Santa fe birth center's midwives are knowledgeable and skilled in techniques that facilitate our clients' physical well-being and emotional satisfaction. We offer prenatal, birth, postpartum and newborn care, and extended client services to santa fe's diverse cultural community, encouraging rituals and birth traditions of all birthing people and their families.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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 - 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 77
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 53
  • Sustainability: 45
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 78.3%; rating input score 78
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • 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: 21.7%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.3; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.65; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0.8%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 39.4% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 43.5% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 85.2% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 78.3% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 6 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $349K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $3K · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • 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: 6 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 37/100.