Care Net Women's Resource Center of North County
Legal name: Care Net Womens Resource Center of North County
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 954737166
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Lancaster, CA, USA
- Phone
- (661) 729-4277
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $440,627
- Expenses
- $478,141
- Assets
- $735,532
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Susanna Martinez (Board President)
- John Meadors (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Colleen Martin (Executive Dir.): $79,667 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Care Net Women’s Resource Center (CNWRC) is a licensed community clinic providing supportive health and human services by offering compassion, hope, and help to anyone facing a pregnancy decision. Support Our Work Join us in creating healthy and happy families in our community. Community support ensures our ability to meet the needs of local women and men facing unplanned pregnancy decisions. Here are a few ways you can **support** the mission:. Join us in creating healthy and happy families in our community. Here are a few ways you can **support** the mission: financial partnership,.
What it reported doing in 2025
During the 2025 calendar year, Care Net Womens Resource Center carried out its mission by providing pregnancy-related support services, education, referrals, and material assistance to individuals and families within the community. Services were delivered through clinic visits, educational programming, and material support initiatives, supported by staff and volunteers.During 2025, the organization recorded 3,111 client visits, administered 649 pregnancy tests, and performed 351 sonograms. These services served as an entry point for education, counseling, and referrals to additional community resources.Educational programming was delivered through both individual and group-based instruction. Clients attended 1,485 individual education classes and 783 group education classes focused on pregnancy education, parenting skills, and healthy lifestyle topics.As part of its program services, Care Net provided 432 referrals to external medical, social service, and community-based organizations to address client needs beyond services provided directly by the organization.Through its baby boutique program, 784 individuals received material assistance including diapers, clothing, and infant supplies. This support helped reduce financial strain and supported healthy pregnancy and parenting outcomes.Program services were supported by volunteer involvement. During 2025, 37 volunteers contributed their time and skills to assist with service delivery and program operations.
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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.6%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 70.9%; rating input score 71
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.45 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 20th 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: -8.5%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.54; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 16.7%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.6% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 78.6% of revenue deployed · 70.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $339K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $80K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 27 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.