California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
942939542
IRS 990 coverage
2015–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Berkeley, CA, USA
Phone
4159745171
Rating
88
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Nursing, Convalescent Facilities

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,346,362
Expenses
$1,895,218
Assets
$6,779,764
Liabilities
$1,037,577

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

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Michael Stocker Dark (President)
  • Christina Flores (Vice President)

Highest reported compensation

  • Maura Gibney (Executive Dir.): $143,685 total reported compensation
  • Anthony Chicotel (Senior Attorney): $111,597 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform (CANHR is dedicated to improving the choices, care and quality of life for Californias long -erm care consumers. Through direct advocacy, policy research, education, and litigation it has been CANHRs goal to educate and support long term care consumers and advocates regarding the rights and remedies under the law, and to create a united voice for long term care reform and humane alternatives to institutionalization.

What it reported doing in 2024

Advocacy Support - During this reporting period, CANHR staff responded to thousands of inquiries and requests for services from legal services, social workers, long term care professionals, attorneys and consumers via CANHRs statewide hotline and the CANHR website feedback form, providing counseling, information and assistance with Medi-Cal, home and community based services, and resident rights issues. In 2024 CANHR staff participated in 69 presentations and outreach events for community groups, Long Term Care Ombudsman, family councils, social workers, health care providers, advocates and policy makers throughout California. Serving over 3,050 people, topics included Medi-Cal eligibility, home and community-based services, eviction protection, incapacity issues, estate recovery, nursing home and residential care rights, and elder financial abuse, among others. CANHRs Homeless Prevention programs, funded by the State Bar of California, provided counseling and representation on denial of benefits including Medi-Cal and Home and Community Based Services which provide housing to consumers throughout California and resulted in many successful outcomes, with several individuals avoiding homelessness. These programs also developed new training programs for staff of qualified legal services programs.CANHR's main website, www.canhr.org received 299,881 visitors over the 2024 calendar year (610,952 page views), 83% of whom were new visitors. The most frequently visited pages were our fact sheets on Medi-Cal Overview, Challenging Hospital Discharge Decisions, In-Home Supportive Services, the Aged and Disabled Medi-Cal Program and the Assisted Living Waiver.A website feedback form allows consumers to submit questions online and receive answers by email on resident and consumer rights, legal services support and referrals through CANHRs Lawyer Referral Service. Over 90 consumer education fact sheets are available for download on CANHRs website, and many are available in Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese, Tagalog and Russian. There are also a number of informational booklets available as free PDF downloads.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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. Reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration and liabilities are high compared with assets.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 81
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 67
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 73.8%; rating input score 74
  • Program expense ratio: 90.6%; rating input score 91
  • Fundraising efficiency: $68.18 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings

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: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • 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: 19.2%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.58; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 13.5%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 73.8% of revenue deployed · 90.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.7M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $144K · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 50/100.