Swain Community Outreach

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
931472520
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Bryson City, NC, USA
Rating
92
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Community Mental Health Center

Reported finances

Revenue
$48,552
Expenses
$75,125
Assets
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Stefanie Lagan (Executive Director and Therapist)

People named in this filing

  • Stefanie Lagan (Executive Director and Therapist)
  • Kim Stillwach (Board Director)
  • Bianca Aufiero (Board 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

Swain Community Outreach has three main tiers: mental health treatment substance use treatment and community outreach. Mental Health treatment encompasses assessment treatment planning psycho-education collaboration with family and collaterals skill building crisis management linkage case management and applying evidence-based treatment to reduce symptoms and meet treatment goals. We currently serve children adults and families offering a variety of payment options including Medicaid Medicare VA self-pay with a sliding scale and private insurance. Substance use treatment includes the above in addition to community psycho-education and harm reduction services. Community Outreach has so far included assisting with crisis management responding to and providing case management for Hurricane survivors and homeless outreach including setting up a warming center and daily meals.

What it reported doing in 2025

Substance Use Services- We served approximately. 20 clients with SUD-specific diagnosis though roughly 3 4 of clients had some SUD exposure. We received a grant from NC Community Foundation to help supplement lost Harm Reduction Supplies and in 2024 spent $398.07. Rest was spent in 2025 for harm reduction supplies. Expenses are not easily differentiated between MH or SUD services so all have been included under MH service. We provided narcan fentanyl testing strips and condoms for harm reduction.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 81% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 7
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 98.7%; rating input score 99

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -54.7%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 26%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 160.4% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -26.7% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -200% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 98.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $74K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • 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 — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.