AltaMed Health Services Corporation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
952810095
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
Location
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Phone
(888) 499-9303; (800) 735-2922 (TTY)
Rating
82
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Ambulatory Health Center, Community Clinic

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,720,050,956
Expenses
$1,651,636,796
Assets
$1,662,774,257
Liabilities
$651,202,408

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

Leadership & pay

24 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CASTULO DE LA ROCHA JD (PRESIDENT & CEO)
  • MARCO DE LA ROCHA (PRESIDENT OF AHN)

Highest reported compensation

  • CASTULO DE LA ROCHA JD (PRESIDENT & CEO): $1,949,272 total reported compensation
  • ANNA TRAN (SR. STRATEGY EXECUTIVE): $1,054,244 total reported compensation
  • ZOILA ESCOBAR (EVP, CHIEF ADMIN OFFICER): $927,830 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 make sure everyone has the same opportunities to access health care and achieve overall well-being. Depending on your insurance, you may qualify to get many routine screenings at no cost. Make an appointment today by calling.

What it reported doing in 2024

Youth services - altamed provides an array of youth services to over 1,200 at-risk teens and young adults in medically-underserved communities each year. Services include: pregnancy and std prevention programs, family planning, health education and information workshops, linkages to clinical services, case management for pregnant/parenting teens, parenting education, support for parenting teens to help them stay in school and life-skills development. Altamed also provides intensive tutoring for high school students, mentorship, guidance into college and technical schools, and workforce development with career pipelines in the medical field.the altamed institute for health equity (aihe). Through innovation and community engagement, the work of the institute is to address a wide array of health inequities that disproportionately affect racial and ethnic groups, including addressing the multiple social determinants of health which lead to disparities in clinical outcomes. Altamed's patient population is overwhelmingly from racial/ethnic minorities including individuals with limited english proficiency that suffer disproportionately from health disparities. Through translational research, grants, and strategic partnerships, the institute is developing evidence-based strategies to improve patient care. The institute represents the establishment of critical resources to advise altamed health services on systematically addressing key issues in health equity by developing and advancing consensus strategies that are effective, sustainable and that can be implemented locally.altamed offers specialty care services to remove the barriers to care many were experiencing when trying to access these much needed services. Expansion of the workforce pipelines continue to educate and train community members in ma, lvn, and nurse career pathways. Altamed has grown the newly formed civic engagement department to address social determinants of health and train community members on how to advocate at the grassroots level for increased and particular health access and reforms, and encourage community to get involved with local issues and vote.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 83% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 80
  • Transparency & Controls: 75
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 51
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 83.4%; rating input score 83
  • Program expense ratio: 87.4%; rating input score 87
  • Fundraising efficiency: $11.91 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 94.7%; rating input score 95; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Pass
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Pass
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
  • Grant itemization coverage: 82%; rating input score 82; 18th 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; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 4%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.01; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.39; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0.7%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 13.5% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 14.5% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 16.3% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 83.4% of revenue deployed · 87.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.4B in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $1.9M · 24 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $42.3M reported
  • Consistency: 39 of 40 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 13 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 73 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 62 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.

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: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 46/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.