Southside Medical Center
Legal name: Southside Medical Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 581131002
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Atlanta, GA, US
- Phone
- 404-688-1350
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Ambulatory Health Center, Community Clinic
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $33,250,447
- Expenses
- $34,769,875
- Assets
- $22,821,072
- Liabilities
- $6,708,125
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DR DAVID WILLIAMS (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- DR DONNA SINCLAIR (CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER): $507,900 total reported compensation
- DR DAVID WILLIAMS (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $394,713 total reported compensation
- CLAUDIO AZZARITI (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER END 03/25): $270,967 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide and support exceptional, high quality and affordable healthcare and related services for the public.
What it reported doing in 2024
Program service achievements: mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well being. It affects how we think, feel and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make choices. Southside mental health is important at every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence through adulthood. Over the course of your life, if you experience mental health problems, your thinking, mood and behavior could be affected. Many factors contribute to mental health problems, including: - biological factors, such as genes or brain chemistry - life experiences, such as trauma or abuse - family history of mental health problems our clinicians will meet with the client to develop a holistic individualized plan of care to address the dimensions of wellness (i.e. Social, emotional, environmental, physical, spiritual, financial, occupational, intellectual). It is the department's goal to assist with restoring individuals to their optimal level of functioning and brain chemistry. Southside behavioral lifestyle enrichment center is a treatment option offered as part of the department's services. This center is based on the belief that recovery from any type of drug abuse and addiction is possible through the use of a well-integrated combination of therapies and services. We believe addiction is a chronic, progressive, primary illness affecting the physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being of the individual and family. Therefore, we treat drug abuse and addiction in a holistic and individual manner, managing it through education, therapy, structure and support. We endeavor to match client needs to treatment, wherein the intensity of medical, counseling and rehabilitative services provided varies depending upon the client's length of sobriety, skills acquired, and goals met. We offer five phases of treatment: stabilization, early recovery, active recovery, maintenance or transition, and aftercare.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 62% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some related-organization disclosures are missing.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 76
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 85.1%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $343.9 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- 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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: No; rating input score 0
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th 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: -4.6%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.66; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.29; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.1%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 10 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 9 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 89% of revenue deployed · 85.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $29.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $508K · 20 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $3.2M reported
- Consistency: 33 of 34 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Related-party transparency scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 42/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.