Wabanaki Health & Wellness Npc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
043337456
IRS 990 coverage
2014–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2013
Location
Bangor, ME, USA
Phone
2079918463
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Mental Health, Crisis Intervention N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$15,964,301
Expenses
$16,759,688
Assets
$12,230,549
Liabilities
$10,140,178

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • REBECCA PETRIE (CO-CEO)
  • LISA SOCKABASIN (CO-CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • JESUS GANDARILLAS (ADVANCED PRACTIONER): $189,880 total reported compensation
  • REBECCA PETRIE (CO-CEO): $185,604 total reported compensation
  • LISA SOCKABASIN (CO-CEO): $185,603 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Our mission is to provide community-driven, culturally centered public health and social services to all wabanki communities and people while honoring wabanaki cultural knowledge, cultivating innovation, and fostering collaboration.

What it reported doing in 2024

Wabanaki healing and recovery: wabanaki healing and recovery is a center in wabanaki public health and wellness and serves as the home to our culturally based substance use treatment programming. In 2024, wabanaki healing and recovery had two recovery homes in bangor, one for men and one for women. Construction was completed on the healing lodge and the organization continued planning work at the gathering place, both in millinocket. The organization is supported by federal and philanthropic grants including the hrsa rural communities opioid response program and mehaf grants. Wabanaki health and wellness is a department within wabanaki healing and recovery that offers tribally enrolled native americans, based in bangor, culturally sensitive case management; free HIV testing and screening; and health promotion services. Wabanaki continues to partner with cornerstone behavioral health to offer behavioral health home/ case management services. Wabanaki division staff are employed to provide "behavioral health home" (bhho) targeted services to both children and adults. In partnership with community housing of Maine, wabanaki offers safe affordable and supportive housing to enrolled native americans. Our goal is to end homelessness and help people achieve self- sufficiency. Whw is supported by federal, state, and philanthropic grants including the samhsa tribal opioid response, peer run recovery center, mehaf capacity building, and sewall healthy people.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 83% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
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 the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 68
  • Transparency & Controls: 65
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 24
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 78.5%; rating input score 78
  • Program expense ratio: 74.7%; rating input score 75
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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; 66th 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: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -5%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.73; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.83; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 4%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 30.6% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 28.9% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 32.9% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 78.5% of revenue deployed · 74.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $12.5M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $190K · 9 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $409K reported
  • Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 59/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.