Seven Counties Services
Legal name: Seven Counties Services Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 310939757
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Louisville, KY, USA
- Phone
- 5025898615
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Mental Health Treatment F31 Psychiatric, Mental Health Hospital
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $125,284,932
- Expenses
- $126,476,271
- Assets
- $43,917,469
- Liabilities
- $18,217,863
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
27 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DAVID PANKOTAI AS OF 1124 (PRESIDENT/CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- SCOTT THOMAS HEDGES (CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER): $410,352 total reported compensation
- DAVID PANKOTAI AS OF 1124 (PRESIDENT/CEO): $393,946 total reported compensation
- RUCHITA AGRAWAL (ASSOCIATE CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER ADULT): $344,311 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Seven Counties Services is a Community Mental Health Center that offers a full range of mental and behavioral health services, substance use treatment, and intellectual and developmental disabilities services in a seven-county region in Kentucky. Since 1978, Seven Counties Services has delivered innovative, individualized, and compassionate community-based treatment, support and services for persons with behavioral health needs.
What it reported doing in 2024
Community-based adult services, assertive community treatment, intensive assertive community engagement, adult services, engagement, homeless outreach, criminal justice programs, therapeutic rehab services, case management, housing, and supported employment.seven counties provides community-based treatment for our most vulnerable citizens with severe and peristent mental illness (spmi) and/or co-occurring substance use disorders. We have a dedicated team of staff who provide a range of services to maximize the client's level of independence, life functioning, and quality of life. The individual, in partnership with their team, plan, coordinate, monitor, adjust, and advocate for services and supports directed toward the achievement of the individual's personal goals for community living. Community-based-child services, including case management. Seven counties provides outpatient mental health and substance abuse services to children and adolescents. Provided by licensed masters-level clinicians, these services included individual, family, couples, or group counseling, primarily provided in a clinic setting. Counseling services-mh/sa child, family & adult. Seven counties provides outpatient mental health and substance use disorder services to children, adolescents, and adults. Our licensed clinicians are experts in their fields who work with each client to figure out the best way to help. Provided by licensed masters-level clinicians, these services included individual, family, couples, or group counseling, primarily provided in a clinic setting. Seven counties counseling services can help with addiction, anger management, anxiety, depression, stress and trauma, and many other concerns.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 95% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 85
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.6%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 88.1%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $9.73 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.7%; rating input score 95; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th 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; 77th 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: -1%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.35; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.41; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.6%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 88.6% of revenue deployed · 88.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 16 of 16 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $111.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $410K · 27 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $3.3M reported
- Consistency: 39 of 40 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 11 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.
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 45/100.