Visiting Nurse Association of Utica and Oneida County Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 150532259
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Utica, NY, USA
- Phone
- 3156248900
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Home Health Care
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,545,840
- Expenses
- $5,020,315
- Assets
- $948,221
- Liabilities
- $7,299,365
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Darlene Stromstad (President/CEO)
- Sushma Kaul MD (MVHS Medical Staff President)
- Louis Aiello (SR Vice President/CFO)
Highest reported compensation
- Darlene Stromstad (President/CEO): $1,012,107 total reported compensation
- Sushma Kaul MD (MVHS Medical Staff President): $804,708 total reported compensation
- Robert Scholefield (SR VP COO): $577,110 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The purpose for which this corporation was formed is to provide a complete range of excellent quality home health care services to the residents of oneida county and its environs and to do so in a cost effective manner that makes the service accessible and affordable to all who require them.
What it reported doing in 2024
To provide quality Home Care under a physician's order to the greater Utica, Oneida County and surrounding areas.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 100% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. 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: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 60
- Accountability: 92
- Sustainability: 11
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 98.4%; rating input score 98
- Program expense ratio: 89.1%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 17th 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: -10.4%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.19; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 7.7; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.9%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.2% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.7% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -10.6% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 98.4% of revenue deployed · 89.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 14 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1M · 20 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $200K reported
- Consistency: 45 of 45 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 5 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 27/100.