Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 800774496
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2013
- Location
- Salt Lake City, UT, USA
- Phone
- 3857073677
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Pollution Abatement and Control Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $229,982
- Expenses
- $250,616
- Assets
- $285,599
- Liabilities
- $694
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DR BRIAN MOENCH (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JONATHAN VASIC (EXECUTIVE DI): $97,500 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization is dedicated to protecting the health and well-being of the citizens of Utah by promoting science-based health education.
What it reported doing in 2025
Providing scientific comments to government agencies and the general public. Program description - educating the public and submitting expert comments focused on air quality, water quality, soil quality, toxic chemicals, fossil fuels and alternative energy to local, state, and federal government agencies on a variety of proposed regulations, rules, and public processes designed to protect the environment and public health. Great salt lake outreach, education & advocacy: the great salt lake has a unique ecosystem that has already begun to collapse because it's drying up. The lake plays a vital role in the quality of life and standard of living of utahns. The organization works with state leaders and the local community to engage and make the public aware of potential environmental health problems that the shrinking great salt lake will bring with it. Air quality education, monitoring and purification in Utah schools: the organization is doing education and outreach to Utah schools about air quality and hepa air purifiers and air quality monitoring. We work with principals, other educators, and the local community to engage and make the public aware of the potential environmental problems related to air quality and give solution to protect your health.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 81.6%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: $14.17 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
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: 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: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.14; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 38.9%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17.8% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.1% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 89% of revenue deployed · 81.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $204K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $98K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 46/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.