Adventures in Caring Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 770073794
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2017, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Santa Barbara, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8054485060
- Rating
- 94
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $74,308
- Expenses
- $106,372
- Assets
- $207,561
- Liabilities
- $10,687
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LINDA ALDERMAN (VICE PRESIDENT)
- PAULA YURKANIS BRUICE (PRESIDENT)
- SIMON FOX (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- DAVID CHERNOF (BOARD MEMBER)
- SHERRY MOREZ (BOARD MEMBER)
- ANMOLE AHDI (BOARD MEMBER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The foundation is dedicated to teaching and delivering compassion in health care: 1) to lift the spirits and prevent the emotional harm of the sick and isolated, and 2) to improve caregiver communication for better patient safety, health, and well-being.
What it reported doing in 2024
Service-learning internship in relationship-centered care (aka: volunteer program): student volunteer interns reduce social isolation, counteract ostracism, and ease the trauma experienced by hundreds of elderly patients in local hospitals and long-term care facilities who are facing their illnesses and mortality mostly alone. More than 50% of those in long-term care would have no visitors at all were it not for the adventures in caring volunteer interns. Their regular visits provide psychosocial support with sufficient frequency and quality to assist in recovery and restore well-being.educational programs for health care professionals, family caregivers (general public), and nursing students-to build competencies in compassion. These competencies are the core knowledge and skills of relationship-centered care, which is fundamental to patient safety and well-being. It develops the emotional intelligence, interpersonal communication skill, and wholeheartedness to embrace human suffering with compassion. For example, the cultivating compassion staff training course is taught at santa barbara city college to nursing assistants who are learning to care for patients with dementia, and at santa barbara visiting nurse and hospice care to nurses who care for the dying.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 91% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -43.2%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.95; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 29.5%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -10.3% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $106K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 14/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.