Vail Health
Legal name: Vail Health Services
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 262648461
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Vail, CO, United States
- Phone
- (970) 477-3116
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Management & Technical Assistance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,783,677
- Expenses
- $5,775,851
- Assets
- $43,335,123
- Liabilities
- $50,519,547
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- WILL COOK (PRESIDENT AND CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- WILL COOK (PRESIDENT AND CEO): $1,378,594 total reported compensation
- JOHN HIGGINS (FORMER TREASURER AND CFO): $575,154 total reported compensation
- KEVIN RUDOLPH (SECRETARY): $566,836 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Research at Vail Health is an integral part of Vail Health’s mission to elevate health across our mountain communities. Our mission is at the intersection of what we do best every day and the people we serve. It represents our evolution from sick care to a focus on whole person health that optimizes healing, promotes wellness and guides people to stay healthy. _**Vision** : The leading mountain healthcare system attracting the best talent to advance quality health for everyone in our communities._ The vision of the Vail Health organization represents what we aspire to be and the positive impact that we want to have in our mountain communities.
What it reported doing in 2024
Vail healthspan was established to advance community health through personalized, evidence-based health and wellness programs focused on prevention, health optimization, and healthy aging. The program serves individuals seeking to improve their physical, mental, and metabolic health through lifestyle-based interventions, including nutrition, exercise, health coaching, behavioral health support, and other whole-person wellness services.the program supports vail health's mission by promoting healthier communities, encouraging disease prevention, improving quality of life, and helping individuals maintain long-term health and independence. By emphasizing education, early intervention, and sustainable health behaviors, vail healthspan extends vail health's commitment to improving the health and well-being of the communities it serves.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 68% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 93
- Transparency & Controls: 69
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 81.8%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: $243 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- 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: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -52.7%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.5; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.17; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.1%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 44.3% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 34.4% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.4% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 81.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $4.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.4M · 17 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: 13 filed related-organization links
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.