The Heriford House Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 880753153
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Columbia, MO, USA
- Phone
- 5736395619
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Counseling, Support Groups
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $409,516
- Expenses
- $339,378
- Assets
- $70,138
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRITTANY EVANS (President)
- CHRISTINA JONES (Vice President)
- Verl Williams (CEO)
People named in this filing
- MELISSA WILLIAMS (Treasurer)
- BRITTANY EVANS (President)
- CHRISTINA JONES (Vice President)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization will provide individual and family therapy services focused on improving access to affordable mental health care for underserved individuals and families within the community.Services will primarily be provided to low- to no-income individuals between the ages of 2 and 99 years old. While services will be available to all individuals seeking assistance, the organizations primary mission is to support those who have limited access to mental health care due to financial hardship or lack of available resources.Therapy and counseling services will be conducted either at the organizations office location or in participants homes when appropriate. Services will generally be provided during regular operating hours between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.; however, limited after-hours services may also be provided for crisis intervention and prevention purposes.Fees may be charged for services. When participants have insurance coverage, the organization will bill the insurance provider
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization will provide individual and family therapy services focused on improving access to affordable mental health care for underserved individuals and families within the community.Services will primarily be provided to low- to no-income individuals between the ages of 2 and 99 years old. While services will be available to all individuals seeking assistance, the organizations primary mission is to support those who have limited access to mental health care due to financial hardship or lack of available resources.Therapy and counseling services will be conducted either at the organizations office location or in participants homes when appropriate. Services will generally be provided during regular operating hours between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.; however, limited after-hours services may also be provided for crisis intervention and prevention purposes.Fees may be charged for services. When participants have insurance coverage, the organization will bill the insurance provider. For uninsured or underinsured individuals, the organization will offer services using a sliding fee scale based on the Federal Poverty Level guidelines. Individuals at or below 100% up to 200% of the Federal Poverty Level may qualify for reduced-cost or no-cost services. No individual will be denied services based solely on inability to pay.Approximately 70% of the organizations time and revenue will be devoted directly to providing counseling and therapy services to participants. Approximately 10% will be allocated to clinical supervision activities, while the remaining portion will support administrative and operational functions such as program management, billing, marketing, outreach, and staff recruitment.By providing low-cost and pro bono therapy services to financially distressed and underserved individuals, the organization aims to increase access to outpatient mental health care services in communities with limited mental health resources and support the overall emotional and psychological well-being of participants.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 0
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.4%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 99.4%; rating input score 99
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17.1%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.21; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: 100% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 82.4% of revenue deployed · 99.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 5 board members independent · 0 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $337K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 15 of 15 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.