The Multi-Cultural Health Institute
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 680384071
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Sarasota, FL, USA
- Phone
- 9419069484
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Health - General and Rehabilitative N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $55,152
- Expenses
- $64,797
- Assets
- $29,035
- Liabilities
- $3,092
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
People named in this filing
- Lisa Merritt MD (Exec Director)
- Pamela Greer MD (Director)
- Washington Hill MD (Director)
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
The organization is committed to research, education, ensuring equal healthcare access and treatment for the underserved and usually uninsured communities in addition to the dissemination of information regarding multicultural health issues. The organization's focus is to provide a holistic, full circle of life approach to healing and to improve the healthcare delivery system by educating, providing hands on training, and interacting with people in the communities we serve. It supports programs that educate, identify, and test for chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes, obesity, stroke, cardiovascular disease, infant mortality and HIV/AIDS.
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization, through collaboraton and education, interacts with community partners to promote wellness and health care that will lead to longer, healthier lives, and reduce costly differences in rates of disease through effective prevention efforts. It seeks to level the healthcare playing field by promoting, educating, and ensuring equal healthcare access and treatment for vulnerable populations who experience disparities in the rates of disease. It uses the principles of prevention, education, advocacy, research, linkage to care, and sustainability ("PEARLS") to support programs that educate, identify and test for conditions such as cancer, diabetes, obesity, stroke, cardiovascular disease, infant mortality, mental health disorders, environmentally-related health disorders, and various infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS and Covid. The organization provides ongoing programs such as:1. Deployment of navigators and safekeepers to assist vulnerable individuals in accessing essential healthcare and resources and to maintain a helpline that community members can call to request assistance or information.2. Collaborate with various organizations to ensure vulnerable communities have access to vital resources during the occurance of storms (such as hurricanes) affecting the local area, such as medical supplies, prescription refills, equipment, virtual information sessions, and timely updates.3. Reaching out to underrepresented students and schools teaching about Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math and Health (STEAMH) careers and providing shadowing and internship opportunities via the MHI Scholars program.4. Public outreach with the MHI Safekeepers by participating and hosting serveral food donation events and distribution of health supplies such as masks.5. Actively educating participants in a year long program (CDC-approved Prevent T2 Lifestyle Prevention Program) that aims to reduce healthcare costs and improve health outcomes.6. Assist individuals facing digital landscape challenges with access to free and low-cost devices and internet.7. Continuing with the work on environmental justice advocacy with panel discussions, presentations and educational programs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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 program spending has grown recently. 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: 40
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 42.6%; rating input score 43
- Program expense ratio: 36.2%; rating input score 36
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: -17.5%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.45; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.7% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 42.6% of revenue deployed · 36.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $23K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 43/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.