The Gaston & Porter Health Improvement Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 030455203
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 3017651942
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Health Program (Includes General Health and Wellness Promotion Services)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $94,108
- Expenses
- $119,202
- Assets
- $88,710
- Liabilities
- $97,490
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DR MARILYN H GASTON (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- DR GAYLE K PORTER (VICE PRESIDE): $583 total reported compensation
- DR MARILYN H GASTON (PRESIDENT): $542 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization's mission is to promote and disseminate information and materials, train trainers and participants in an intervention to improve the physical, emotional and spiritual health of women, especially women of color and african descent. The main product for this work is the prime time sister circles (ptsc) which focuses on changing the knowledge, attitudes and behavior of african american women on their health in midlife. The organization also provides skills and tools to apply the knowledge needed to change habits of disease into habits of health.
What it reported doing in 2024
Gphic is conducting prime time sister circles (ptsc), our innovative, curriculum- and community-based, holistic, thirteen-week support groups, for underserved, low-income black women, i.e., african americans, africans, caribbeans, lesbians, and seniors. The objectives are to increase knowledge, improve attitudes, and change behaviors related to hypertension, stress, and depression. Ptsc will empower participants to control their blood pressure by promoting preventive health care, providing screening and monitoring of blood pressure and weight, teaching strategies for managing stress, increasing physical activity, and improving nutrition.
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
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: 48
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 86
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 58.8%; rating input score 59
- Program expense ratio: 46.4%; rating input score 46
- 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -26.7%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.74; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.1; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.9%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -13.5% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -11.6% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.5% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 58.8% of revenue deployed · 46.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $55K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $583 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 46/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.