Southern Vermont Area Health Education Center Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
030360193
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Springfield, VT, USA
Phone
8028852126
Rating
68
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Public Health Program (Includes General Health and Wellness Promotion Services)

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$665,058
Expenses
$745,406
Assets
$732,497
Liabilities
$239,182

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

Leadership & pay

14 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • KATE MCGINN (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • JENNIFER SCOTT (EXECUTIVE DI): $98,880 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Enhancing community efforts to obtain, maintain and retain the primary healthcare workforce in southern Vermont.

What it reported doing in 2024

Health careers exploration: classroom presentations and learning modules- includes didactic, hands-on activities and health professional guest presentations to highlight different health career sectors (e.g. Behavioral health, clinical and primary care, public health). Career and technical education centers and high school career exploratroy programs are targeted for outreach. Medquest- southern Vermont ahec's signature summer pathway programs involve intensive, multi-day opportunities for high school students where the students have the option to earn an industry-recognized credential. Medquest is an on-site, 3-day, non-residential program for high school students to explore a variety of health careers in a rich learning environment with engaging clinical content and group discussions, skill- building activities, job shadowing, mentoring, career planning and reflection, and dialogue with health professionals. First-year medical students (ahec scholars) serve as mentors for the program. Learning outcomes involve skills and knowledge in the areas of teamwork, patient care, health careers exploration, self-reflection, and health equity and inclusion. Health education resources & opportunities (hero) - consists of an afterschool partnership with an alternative education program for high school students with barriers to learning and employment who are underserved in a traditional school setting. Students and health professional mentors meet in-person and complete a health career exploration curriculum together after school during the academic year. Hero involves exploring personal interests, matching interests to a health career pathway, and increasing general health science vocabulary and knowledge. Students have the option to earn a cpr/stop the bleed certification, tour the local hospital, meet with hospital human resources about career opportunities and guidance, and design a resume.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 79% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
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 a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 40
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 25
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 47.5%; rating input score 47
  • Program expense ratio: 41.9%; rating input score 42
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • 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: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -12.1%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.98; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.33; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 13.3%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 47.5% of revenue deployed · 41.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $312K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $99K · 14 people listed
  • Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2011 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 47/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 42/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 27/100.