Southern Alliance for Public Health Leadership
Legal name: Southern Alliance for Public Health Leadership Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 333628640
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Atlanta, GA, United States
- Phone
- 4042760893
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $122,689
- Expenses
- $67,880
- Assets
- $54,809
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
People named in this filing
- Terri Jowers (BOD Chair)
- Jimmell Felder MD (BOD Vice Chair)
- Carri Ayne Jones Parr PhD (BOD Secretary)
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
The Southern Alliance for Public Health Leadership (SAPHL) mission is to strengthen an alliance of trusted voices in public health across the South that will build, unite, and empower the people, services, and infrastructure of public health systems to improve health outcomes in Southern communities.
What it reported doing in 2025
Network Building and Coalition Development - Expanded active membership from 10 founding members to over 750 public health professionals and participants across four initial target states: North Carolina, Georgia, South Carolina, and Tennessee. - Established four local chapters (DeKalb County, GA; Chattanooga, TN; Columbia, SC; and Spartanburg, SC) to serve as local communities of practice for addressing municipal and county-level public health challenges. - Hosted the organization's inaugural regional meeting to facilitate networking, collaboration, and the exchange of best practices among public health organizations across the South
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 60
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 74
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 45.6%; rating input score 46
- Program expense ratio: 82.5%; rating input score 82
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 44.7%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.81; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 45.6% of revenue deployed · 82.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $56K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 46/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.