Sebasticook Family Doctors
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 010546327
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Palmyra, ME, USA
- Phone
- 2073685189
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Health Treatment Facilities, Primarily Outpatient
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $8,742,564
- Expenses
- $6,437,957
- Assets
- $43,679,551
- Liabilities
- $32,295,056
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- James Lemieux (Board President)
- Dawn Gordon (Board Vice President)
- Robin Winslow (Chief Executive Officer)
Highest reported compensation
- Michael MacDonald (Medical Director): $312,219 total reported compensation
- Robin Winslow (Chief Executive Officer): $277,556 total reported compensation
- Israel Adeloye (Dentist): $153,114 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of Sebasticook Family Doctors (SFD) is to ensure that primary care, dental, and mental health services are available to those that live in and around communities in which SFD serves (Newport and Dexter) SFD is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) and provides health care services to those that would otherwise be unable to afford them.
What it reported doing in 2024
As of the end of the tax reporting year ending September 30, 2025, Sebasticook Family Doctors, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), is a nonprofit organization located in Newport, Maine which operates a network of physician practices in the towns of Dexter and Newport. These practices provide, or assure access to primary care, specialty care, mental health and dental health care services to residents of communities in Penobscot, Piscataquis, Somerset, and Waldo Counties.
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 - 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 liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 54
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 53.6%; rating input score 54
- Program expense ratio: 73%; rating input score 73
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 26.4%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.78; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.74; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 18.9%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 24.9% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 53.6% of revenue deployed · 73% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $4.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $312K · 16 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $810K reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 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.
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 54/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.