Society for Public Health Education Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
237299881
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
Location
Alexandria, VA, USA
Phone
2024089804
Rating
67
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Education

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,613,114
Expenses
$2,206,055
Assets
$2,545,460
Liabilities
$1,212,966

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

Leadership & pay

32 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • WILLIAM DATEMA (CEO)
  • MARICELA ARIAS-CANTU (DEPUTY CEO)
  • LEONARD JACK (PRESIDENT)
  • HEIDI HANCHER-RAUCH (PRESIDENT ELECT)
  • RAFFY LUQUIS (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • WILLIAM DATEMA (CEO): $220,362 total reported compensation
  • DANIEL ANBIAH (CFO): $152,366 total reported compensation
  • MARICELA ARIAS-CANTU (DEPUTY CEO): $129,225 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 society for public health education (sophe) is a nonprofit association that supports leaders in public health, health education, and promotion to advance healthy and equitable communities across the globe. Sophe members work in health care settings, communities, businesses, organizations, schools, universities, worksites, and in local, state, and federal government agencies.

What it reported doing in 2024

Health education: sophe continued to build health promotion and health education content for continuing education, available in sophe's center for online resources and education (core). This content is available to members and other professionals at all times for their convenience.sophe continued to disseminate information on national standards for the preparation of school health educators and its work with the council for accreditation of educator preparation (caep). Caep recognizes sophe as a specialized professional association in school health education. In conjunction with the national commission for health education credentialing, sophe continued to disseminate the results of the psychometric study of the national health education specialists practice analysis ii, which enumerates the areas of responsibility, competencies, and sub-competencies for the health education workforce. In 2024, sophe partnered with nchec to begin the third iteration of the health education specialists practice analysis (hespa iii). Sophe joined five other leading health education organizations in the national consensus for school health education, which released the third edition of the national health education standards for voluntary use by school districts and state, territorial, and tribal education agencies.

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 94% 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 a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 43
  • Transparency & Controls: 83
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 20
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 55.1%; rating input score 55
  • Program expense ratio: 36.5%; rating input score 36
  • Fundraising efficiency: $2.01 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings

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; 76th 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: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -36.8%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.15; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.48; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 22.8%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 55.1% of revenue deployed · 36.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 19 of 19 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $805K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $220K · 32 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 55/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 36/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 6/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.