Southwest Care Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 850397444
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Santa Fe, NM, US
- Phone
- 505 955 9454
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $69,077,162
- Expenses
- $62,315,305
- Assets
- $48,584,632
- Liabilities
- $7,069,365
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
22 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MICHAEL ADAMS (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- MICHAEL ADAMS (CEO): $392,152 total reported compensation
- DR KEVIN LOPEZ (CMO): $376,925 total reported compensation
- DR FAYNESSA HERNANDEZ (PHYSICIAN): $294,431 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Southwest Care provides primary care, pediatrics, behavioral health, gender equity medicine, and pharmacy services at three locations across Santa Fe and Albuquerque. We offer sliding-scale fees and no one is turned away due to their financial situation.
What it reported doing in 2024
Southwest care center (scc) is a nonprofit health center based in santa fe, serving patients from 4 locations in santa fe and bernalillo counties. Since 1996, scc has been providing HIV/AIDS care and primary medical services, including a range of preventive, clinical, chronic disease, and other services. Scc sees all patients, regardless of ability to pay, including those with medicare, medicaid, commercial coverage, and uninsured and underinsured. More than half of service area residents are low-income, living at or below 200% of the federal poverty guideline. For patients without health insurance, a sliding fee discount program (sfdp) is administered to ensure equal access and uniformity. Throughout its history scc has championed diversity, (continued on schedule o)inclusion, and respect, creating a safe and welcoming place for a broad spectrum of patients, including many who might feel uncomfortable or unwelcome in more "traditional" health care settings. There are few alternatives for these patients, and scc are the premier provider of lgbtqai+ friendly healthcare in santa fe and northern New Mexico.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 93% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 95% 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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.1%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 88.7%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- 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; 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: 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: 9.8%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.78; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.3%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.8% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.8% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.5% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 10 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 79.1% of revenue deployed · 88.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $55.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $392K · 22 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $8.1M reported
- Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 10 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.
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.