Squirrel Hill Health Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 201163755
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Phone
- 4124227442
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Ambulatory Health Center, Community Clinic
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $15,692,497
- Expenses
- $14,021,700
- Assets
- $12,098,028
- Liabilities
- $1,845,631
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SUSAN FRIEDBERG KALSON (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- ANDREA FOX MD (MEDICAL DIRECTOR): $290,665 total reported compensation
- SUSAN FRIEDBERG KALSON (CEO): $268,316 total reported compensation
- JONATHAN WEINKLE MD (PEDIATRIAN): $243,605 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Squirrel hill health center provides patient-driven, high-quality, comprehensive, primary and preventive healthcare and support services, without regard for patients' insurance status or ability to pay.
What it reported doing in 2024
Squirrel hill health center grew steadily throughout 2024, serving 10,498 patients at three fixed sites and on the mobile medical unit, which brings healthcare to isolated residents of allegheny county. Outpatient primary medical services include prenatal and women's health care, pediatrics, family medicine, internal medicine, and geriatrics. Integrated behavioral health care, available to patients of shhc's primary medical clinicians, includes psychiatric evaluations and treatment, individual and group therapy, medication management for a variety of behavioral health diagnoses, as well as integrated medication assisted treatment for opioid addiction. Shhc provides preventive, restorative and emergency dental services at the squirrel hill location only. Shhc also provides on-site lab services, access to affordable prescription medications, assistance in insurance enrollment, care coordination. A clinician is on call 24/7 and shhc makes house calls to homebound patients. The center passed its most recent hrsa operational site visit in april 2025 and is deemed for malpractice coverage through the federal tort claims act.
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 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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.7%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 77.2%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: $179.5 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.6%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.86; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.4%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.4% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.9% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 69.7% of revenue deployed · 77.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $10.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $291K · 19 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 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.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.