Wellness Networks Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
382464851
IRS 990 coverage
2015–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Highland Park, MI, USA
Phone
4142731991
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
AIDS

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,525,650
Expenses
$4,409,019
Assets
$9,660,716
Liabilities
$12,695,751

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

Leadership & pay

28 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • BRANDON HILL (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)

Highest reported compensation

  • BRANDON HILL (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $701,518 total reported compensation
  • TIMOTHY D DYER (EXECUTIVE VP & CFO): $529,532 total reported compensation
  • MARGARET G LIDSTONE CHIEF (DEVELOP. OFFICER (END 07/2025)): $331,499 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Vision: vivent health envisions an end to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.mission: to end HIV/AIDS by providing integrated, personalized, judgment-free healthcare, social services, and effective prevention strategies.

What it reported doing in 2024

Prevention services - in all locations, vivent health provides aggressive, targeted education, prevention and testing services. In fy2025, vivent health conducted 11,859 HIV tests, 3,210 hepatitis c (hcv) tests, and 19,784 sti tests. Vivent health provided HIV and sti prevention and risk reduction counseling for men who have sex with men, people who inject drugs, and others at-risk for HIV, hcv and sti, including the distribution of more than 2,474,964 condoms, through personal interventions, social media and the vivent health online depot; HIV/hcv/sti counseling and testing services; syringe access services (more than 2.8 million syringes were distributed), harm reduction, navigation and referral services; and overdose prevention education (distributed 49,584 doses of naloxone and 2,777 individuals reported saving a life with naloxone).

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 82% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 80% for direct work, and 20% for grants.

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 a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 81
  • Transparency & Controls: 71
  • Accountability: 91
  • Sustainability: 26
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 44.5%; rating input score 45
  • Fundraising efficiency: $205.61 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 92; 92nd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • 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: -189%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.19; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.31; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 6.2%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 0% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 26.8% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 44.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 19 of 19 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $2M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $702K · 28 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $438K reported
  • Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • Related organizations: 6 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.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 45/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 50/100.