Urban Coalition for HIVAIDS Prevention Services

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
272560783
IRS 990 coverage
2016–2018
Forms available
Form 990 2018
Location
Washington, DC, USA
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Community Coalitions

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$607,029
Expenses
$586,238
Assets
$75,722
Liabilities
$67,534

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Andre Ford (President)
  • Kevin Jones (Executive Director Termed D)

Highest reported compensation

  • Kevin Jones (Executive Director Termed D): $144,572 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

A coalition to enhance HIV prevention activities in urban jurisdictions highly impacted by HIV through facilitating collaborative technical assistance activities and serving as a resource to U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention on urban HIV/ AIDS prevention issues.

What it reported doing in 2018

The Urban Coalition for HIV/AIDS Prevention Services (UCHAPS) is a 501(c)3 based in Washington DC. The non-profit organization is a national collaboration of community partners and health departments dedicated to promoting public health and preventing new HIV infections. Key activities include providing peer technical assistance among local programs; developing best practice documents based on member experiences that support prevention program development and implementation; informing federal initiatives across the US Department of Health and Human Services with a focus on the experiences of urban jurisdictions and their HIV prevention-related needs; collaborating with local, state, federal, and global partnerships to identify strategies that accelerate progress towards decreasing new HIV infections; educating policymakers to build support for HIV Prevention. UCHAPS supported the implementation of a capacity building assistance program aimed at increasing the capacity of jurisdictions highly impacted by HIV to implement effective routine HIV testing in public and private health care settings, including the use of new testing technologies, prevention with HIV positive persons and program implementation related policy; developing and executing trainings and online learning modules, sharing best practices. UCHAPS participated in numerous meetings with national and federal partners to describe, discuss and identify challenges and opportunities for improving HIV prevention services to underserved communities.

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 96% 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 65
  • Transparency & Controls: 86
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 27
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 71.9%; rating input score 72
  • Program expense ratio: 74.5%; rating input score 74
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 12th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 3.4%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.13; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.89; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 24.7%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -16.7% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -10.3% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -58% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 71.9% of revenue deployed · 74.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $437K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $145K · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2016 to 2018
  • 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

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  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 50/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.