California Primary Care Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 943215565
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Sacramento, CA, USA
- Phone
- 916-440-8170
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Health - General and Rehabilitative N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $19,151,068
- Expenses
- $25,509,224
- Assets
- $18,903,201
- Liabilities
- $5,662,010
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
39 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- FRANCISCO SILVA (PRESIDENT & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
- DAVID ORANGE (VICE PRESIDENT OF JEDI)
Highest reported compensation
- FRANCISCO SILVA (PRESIDENT & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $677,690 total reported compensation
- SONJA SPOWART (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $302,021 total reported compensation
- GINGER L SMITH (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $281,260 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
CPCA is the statewide leader and recognized voice representing the interests of California’s community health centers and their patients. We are driven to help CHCs fulfill their mission of overcoming barriers to healthcare access such as poverty, lack of health insurance, immigration status, ethnicity, language and culture, disability, homelessness, geographic isolation, and other needs.
What it reported doing in 2024
Lead and position its member community clinics and health centers and networks through advocacy, education, and services as key players in the health care delivery system to improve the health status of their communities. Strengthens the operational efficiency and marketplace competitiveness by providing training, technical assistance and educational programs for community clinics and health centers and their staffs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 53% for direct work, and 47% for grants.
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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 95
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 17
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 92.4%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd 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; 66th 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: -33.2%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.74; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.3; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.5%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.7% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.6% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.3% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 92.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 30 of 30 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $23.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $678K · 39 people listed · 6 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2.4M reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 60 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 53 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.