CommuniCare Health Centers
Legal name: Barrio Comprehensive Family Health Care Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 741724391
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- San Antonio, TX, USA
- Phone
- (210) 233-7000
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Health Treatment Facilities, Primarily Outpatient
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $397,405,153
- Expenses
- $373,841,868
- Assets
- $191,701,975
- Liabilities
- $59,804,014
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
28 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Coda Rayo-Garza (Vice-President)
- Shawn Lovorn (President)
- Paul Nguyen (President & CEO)
- Ricardo Gonzalez (Vice President & CFO)
- Carlos Moreno MD (Vice President & CCO)
- Christopher Adams (Vice President & CPIO)
Highest reported compensation
- Paul Nguyen (President & CEO): $740,715 total reported compensation
- Ricardo Gonzalez (Vice President & CFO): $435,526 total reported compensation
- Nichole Van de Putte MD (Director of OB/GYN): $425,804 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 the health of those we serve with a commitment to excellence in all we do. At CommuniCare, we offer Adult Medicine, also known as Family Medicine, to help you maintain your health at any age. So, whether you're in your early 20s or approaching your 70s, our caring and experienced medical team is ready to support your health needs. We have many clinics throughout San Antonio and the surrounding areas, making it easy for you to access quality healthcare. Whether you need a routine checkup, assistance in managing a chronic condition like diabetes, or treatment for allergies, we are here to support you! When you choose CommuniCare, you get friendly, accessible adult primary care that puts your health first. Schedule an appointment with us and experience the CommuniCare.
What it reported doing in 2024
Communicare health centers provide patients with primary and preventive medical health care services to improve health and well being. Our family medicine services provide care to patients of all ages, from infants to senior citizens providing acute care, chronic disease management, immunizations, preventative healthcare, and health education. The women's health program provides women of all ages with access to the care for general women's care, obstetric care and breast and cervical cancer screenings. Our pediatric services provide acute, chronic illness and preventive care, including well-child exams, immunizations and health education. In addition, we offer services that identifies high risk diabetic foot conditions with comprehensive annual exams, treatments for the nail and skin infections, and minor trauma including sprains, strains, and other musculoskeletal deformities. In 2024, communicare health centers provided a total of 456,725 medical care encounters to 118,847 patients who reside in the san antonio and surrounding areas.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 96% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 97
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.4%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 85.4%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $34 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 6 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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; 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: 5.9%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.51; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.31; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.2%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 21.9% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 19.8% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.1% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 80.4% of revenue deployed · 85.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $319.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $741K · 28 people listed · 6 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $96.5M reported
- Consistency: 33 of 34 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 11 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 54/100.