Capacitar Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 770387846
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Soquel, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8314777644
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $322,877
- Expenses
- $263,050
- Assets
- $491,962
- Liabilities
- $1,536
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SHARON DUGGAN (Vice President)
- VALERIE BENGAL MD (President)
Highest reported compensation
- PATRICIA CANE (Executive Dir.): $96,172 total reported compensation
- JOAN CONDON (Int. Exec Dir.): $4,394 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Capacitar Internationals mission is healing ourselves, healing our world. In fulfillment of this mission, it provides holistic health and wellness education for people suffering from stress or trauma as a result of civil, domestic and political violence, natural disasters, illness such as cancer or HIV/AIDS, and poverty, both within the United States and internationally. It produces, and where applicable, produces and translates training manuals, DVDs, and other learning materials.
What it reported doing in 2025
International Program: In 2025, Capacitar International teams facilitated hundreds of workshops for thousands of people in person and via Zoom technology with many more thousands benefiting from the popular education multiplier effect. Trainers offered workshops in the following places: the USA (California, Texas, and Arizona), Mexico, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panam, Argentina, Chile, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, England, Wales, Germany, Israel, Japan, South Korea, The Philippines, Indonesia, Afghanistan (via Zoom) and parts of Africa. Over 4000 direct participants were either grassroots leaders or professionals who work with communities and organizations who are committed to healing and transforming people impacted by stress, political and domestic violence, natural disasters, trauma and illness (COVID, cancer, HIV/AIDS and disabilities). Manuals and training materials were produced, published and translated. The Capacitar website continued to be updated to offer materials and videos and make available many more healing resources in 42 different languages. In fulfilling its mission of healing ourselves, healing our world, Capacitar International trainers provided its four-module foundation training in healing and transformation, advanced trainings and workshops to more than 1000 people.The following in-person trainings were facilitated directly by Capacitar International trainers: in Germany 2 modules of the foundation training, one train-the trainers and 3 additional outreach workshops; in Wales one advanced formation training; in England one advanced and one foundation module; in Ireland, 2 foundation trainings, 2 advanced trainings and 4 additional outreach workshops; in Scotland 1 foundation training and 1 advanced training ; In El Salvador 2 advanced workshops for three NGOs, 2 advanced workshops for an association of midwives plus one workshop for seniors; In Ciudad Juarez, Mexico one foundation training. The Zoom program provided all the modules of the foundation training for Spanish-speaking community leaders in Central America who work to promote health and well-being in their families, communities and organizations; 10 workshops for the staff and teachers at a school in Nicaragua to help teachers deal with stress and trauma and with training on how to share the healing practices with their students; the four-module foundation training was also provided for men and women in the Philippines who work with organizations and groups for health and well-being. Also on zoom were two Teaching the Practices Workshops for those who have attended Capacitar trainings and want to improve their skill in multiplying by sharing with other people and groups. This was a collaborative effort of Capacitar International and Capacitar Scotland.Beginning in December 2025 and continuing into 2026, a Capacitar International trainer is teaching a class-- Body-Mind-Spirit Community Practices for Working with Trauma--for students at the School of Social Work and Social Justice of the Episcopal University in Haiti. Eleven of the 12 students have been forcibly displaced by gang violence. They are using the tools for themselves to deal with stress and trauma and will have them to share with their clients as they become social workers.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 78% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 66.2%; rating input score 66
- Program expense ratio: 80.8%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $13.6 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 18.5%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.87; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 38.2%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.1% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.7% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 66.2% of revenue deployed · 80.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $213K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $96K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 45/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.