Western Maryland Area Health Education Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 521183533
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Cumberland, MD, USA
- Phone
- 3017779150
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,586,813
- Expenses
- $3,619,170
- Assets
- $1,578,366
- Liabilities
- $692,356
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SUSAN STEWART (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- SUSAN STEWART (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $109,765 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To improve access to and promote quality in health care through educational and other partnerships, we collaborate with local, state, federal, and private organizations working toward mutual goals of a fair national distribution of health professionals and the elimination of health disparities due to rurality, poverty, race, and culture.
What it reported doing in 2024
Pos ahec - to recruit health care professionals to fill workforce gaps and increase health career education in public and private schools.Maryland deptartment of health and mental hygiene - to assist the rural area health centers (ahecs) by providing funds to enhance training, recruitment, and retention of medical providers in rural areas.power peers - recruit, train, and provide adequate supervision to peer support workers.march - expand the number and diversity of healthcare professionals with abortion care training by increasing physician and apc students and practitioners' access to abortion education, increase the racial and ethnic diversity among healthcare professionals with abortion care training, through the expanation of providers to include physician and apc students and practitioners, support the identification of clinical sites in need of training, and expand contraceptive and abortion care access for women throughout Maryland.healthy teen network - provide project management and training and technical assitance to implementation partners for implementing evidence-based programs with youth ages 13-19 intending to reduce rual Maryland county teen birth rates, rural Maryland county youth sti rates, and racial disparities in Maryland rural county teen birth and sti rates.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 85% 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
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: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.9%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 90.8%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.9%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.44; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.44; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.9% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.6% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 91.9% of revenue deployed · 90.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $3.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $110K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Whistleblower policy not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.