Valley-Wide Health Systems, Inc.
Legal name: Valley-wide Health Systems Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 840706945
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Alamosa, CO, US
- Phone
- 719-587-1001
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Health, General and Financing
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $64,977,482
- Expenses
- $64,788,080
- Assets
- $89,214,008
- Liabilities
- $18,460,612
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JANIA ARNOLDI (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- JANIA ARNOLDI (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $346,470 total reported compensation
- TAMMY GREGG (PROVIDER): $253,931 total reported compensation
- NORMAN MACLEOD (PROVIDER): $249,792 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Valley-Wide Health Systems, Inc. is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) providing premier primary and preventive care to rural communities in Colorado.
What it reported doing in 2024
Valley-wide health systems, inc. Is a non-profit, community health center, serving 17 counties in southern rural Colorado since 1976, with full aaahc accreditation. The mission of the organization directs valley-wide's scope of services which is to provide quality, comprehensive healthcare services in a respectful and inclusive manner, with special consideration for medically underserved populations. Specifically included are patients who are uninsured, underinsured, or who have limited access to primary health and dental care services. Valley-wide provides safe and effective comprehensive primary, oral health care, and behavioral health services to improve the health status of underserved and vulnerable populations, this includes (continued on schedule o) (continued) a farm worker health service program that provides services through vouchers in areas of the state that do not house c/mhcs. During fiscal year 2024/2025 valley-wide provided 148,982 patientservices visits.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 81% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.3%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 78.9%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: $175.36 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.3%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.38; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.6%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.1% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 10 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 77.3% of revenue deployed · 78.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $51.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $346K · 17 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.9M reported
- Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 33/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 43/100.