West Virginia Alliance for Creative Health Solutions Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
851172651
IRS 990 coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2020
Location
Culloden, WV, USA
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis

Reported finances

Revenue
$221,684
Expenses
$211,813
Assets
$283,659
Liabilities
$261,620

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • ADAM BAUS PHD MPH (CO DIRECTOR): $30,901 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

West Virginia alliance for creative health solutions (wvachs) is a primary care practice-based research network (pbrn) leading patient-centered and community-oriented research to bring solutions to priority health disparities and health issues in the state.

What it reported doing in 2025

Health care research and dissemination: the West Virginia alliance for creative health solutions, inc. (wvachs) is a statewide network of clinicians, researchers, and community partners working to improve health care across West Virginia, especially for people and communities that face the greatest barriers to care. Efforts are focused on practical research that stems from questions in clinics and communities. In 2025, wvachs continued to build this work across a range of priority issues, including chronic disease, obesity, infectious disease, access to care, environmental health, and prevention. By the close of calendar year 2025, wvachs had 12 active or ongoing research projects. These included projects such as: "perceived water safety and elevated liver enzymes in rural West Virginia, which explores how drinking water concerns may influence health behaviors and liver outcomes "statewide youth vaping prevention in West Virginia: two-year outcomes of catch my breath, which evaluates the reach and impact of a school-based vaping prevention program "ongoing work on hepatitis c treatment access, racial bias in pulse oximetry, and community-based obesity and nutrition interventions wvachs also continued to share findings through publications and presentations. Work conducted in 2025 resulted in two peer-reviewed journal articles later in 2026, including: "statewide youth vaping prevention in West Virginia: two-year outcomes of catch my breath (baus, burchfield, chill, et al.), published in the journal of primary care & community health "perceived water safety and elevated liver enzymes in rural West Virginia: links between drinking water, beverage habits, and liver health (bailey, lilly, & baus), published in rural and remote health in addition, wvachs delivered four presentations in 2025, including: ""West Virginia's clear future - year 2 evaluation highlights" presented to the West Virginia tobacco use prevention and cessation task force "two presentations to the coalition for a tobacco-free West Virginia network ""a qualitative analysis of implementation experiences from West Virginia's clear future" at the lifestyle medicine conference in grapevine, Texas

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 87% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 84% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 76
  • Transparency & Controls: 87
  • Accountability: 79
  • Sustainability: 39
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 74.2%; rating input score 74
  • Program expense ratio: 77.1%; rating input score 77
  • Fundraising efficiency: $95.81 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 90.6%; rating input score 91; 54th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 4.5%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.34; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.92; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 14.6%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 41.7% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 44.5% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 74.2% of revenue deployed · 77.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $163K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $31K · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 24 of 25 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 4 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.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.