California Pan-Ethnic Health Network

What it reported doing in 2025

For nearly 35 years, CPEHN has been at the forefront of improving health care for all Californians. With our community partners across the State, we have engaged hundreds of consumers through letters, testimonies, educational visits, and media advocacy. At the core of our work are our partnerships with community organizations and coalitions that we convene to leverage our work and enhance our capacity to mobilize for change. We work with three statewide networks: the Having Our Say coalition (HOS), which convenes grassroots, direct services, and immigrant rights organizations that serve diverse communities of color and immigrant communities in California; the Behavioral Health Equity Collaborative (BHEC), which convenes state and local organizations serving the mental health needs of immigrants, refugees, youth, LGBTQ, and people of color; and the Organizing for Public Health Leadership Academy (OPHLA), formerly known as the Public Health Collaborative (PHC), a co-learning space where community leaders build power with each other to deepen their public health work by combining lived experiences with theories, tools, and relationships in the public health field to move towards collective health and liberation. CPEHN works with these networks to educate stakeholders and empower them to make health care work better for all Californians, connecting them to key decision-makers so they can make their voices heard. We also work with these networks to identify issues for further research and publish policy reports and recommendations based on our findings to educate community partners and decision-makers about the health care needs of communities of color and solutions to these issues.CPEHN supports local governments to better serve their constituents through research and documenting best practices, worked with state government officials to ensure that health care works for all Californians, and provided training and technical assistance to direct service providers to ensure that they could leverage new funding, policy changes, and new opportunities to reach vulnerable populations. We authored numerous reports, provided subject matter expert testimony and comment to government entities, and educated the public about access to high quality health care services.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 70.8%; rating input score 71
• Program expense ratio: 90.3%; rating input score 90
• Fundraising efficiency: $82.64 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
  • Compensation committee: Missing
  • Independent consultant: Missing
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Pass
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th 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; 63rd 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: 25.7%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.95; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 16.9%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 14.2% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 18.9% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings