Casa Colina Hospital and Centers for Healthcare

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
953655256
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Pomona, CA, US
Phone
909/596-7733
Rating
82
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Management & Technical Assistance

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$91,706,156
Expenses
$91,706,156
Assets
$20,560,056
Liabilities
$19,707,836

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

Leadership & pay

22 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Kelly Linden (President & CEO)
  • Stephanie Kaplan (Executive Director - TLC & Rehabilitation Services)
  • Jennyfer Poduska (Executive Director - Access and Reimbursement)

Highest reported compensation

  • Kelly Linden (President & CEO): $921,777 total reported compensation
  • David Morony (CFO): $623,696 total reported compensation
  • Rodney Peek through 63024 (VP Brain Injury): $525,466 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

To provide exceptional medical care and rehabilitation services to individuals with disabilities and special needs, helping them achieve their highest level of independence and quality of life.

What it reported doing in 2024

During the fiscal year, casa colina, inc. Provided support services to all of its affiliates. Services and support consisted of accounting, payroll, human resources, management information systems, contracting, public relations, and billing and collections services to these seven (7) affiliates. In support to the affiliates, casa colina, inc. Incurred $10,504,700 in expenses. The expenses are charged to the affiliates based on a formula and utilization of services. As a result of these necessary support services, the affiliates were able to provide medical, residential and therapeutic services to the patients served. The results were the following: hospital acute rehabilitiation = 22,275 inpatient days hospital medical/surgical and icu = 3,431 inpatient days hospital outpatient = 170,950 visits outpatient services to children with various diagnoses = 12,159 visits residential inpatient services to short term/long term care = 43,642 inpatient days other outpatient rehabilitation services for patients with brain injuries = 5,000 visits casa colina, inc. And its affiliates had 252 beds during the fiscal year consisting of: 68 hospital acute rehabilitation beds; 31 medical-surgical and icu beds; 53 transitional living care beds; 92 long-term residential beds; and 8 long-term semi-independent beds. The services which casa colina, inc. Supported consisted of: medical-surgical and icu services, consisting of 25 private medical-surgical beds and six intensive care unit beds. Beginning in april 2016, casa colina began surgical procedures including orthopedic, gastroenterology, neurosurgery, podiatry, general surgery, and others. Brain injury services provide a continuum of care for individuals with brain or severe head injuries. The continuum includes: (a) acute rehabilitation for individuals who respond more consistently to stimulation or engage in some form of communication, (b) residential or day program transitional living for patients who have finished acute therapy but still need assistance in learning the skills necessary to re-enter living with family or another community setting or returning to work, (c) outpatient therapy that focuses on restoring physical, communicative, psychosocial or neuropsychological skills, and (e) residential programs for those who will continue to need a supervised living situation. Burn or wound care rehabilitation services provides rehabilitation for individuals who have experienced severe burns. Services vary, and multidisciplinary clinics and services such as amputee, internal medicine, foot and gait, and women's health are coordinated. Children's services provides outpatient rehabilitation services for children age three months to 16 years including specialized programs for infant development, autism and pediatric orthopedics at the children's services center. The after school activities program provides socialization, enrichment and opportunities for success for children with disabilities attending regular schools. A high degree of cooperation is maintained with local school systems. Specialized services are provided for specific diagnosis, such as brain injury, osteogenesis imperfecta, cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, spina bifida and spinal cord injury, as well as therapies for general rehabilitation. General rehabilitation provides care and therapeutic intervention to patients who need to strengthen their abilities to perform routine and work functions. Therapies focus on improving endurance, work capacity, mobility and balance. Individual rehabilitation programs also assist people with disabilities resulting from multiple sclerosis, post polio syndrome, cancer and cerebral palsy, orthopedic and neurological disorders. Hand therapy offers the services of certified hand therapists with highly specialized expertise to work with patients to restore hand function and utility.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 99% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 80
  • Transparency & Controls: 89
  • Accountability: 87
  • Sustainability: 19
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 89.7%; rating input score 90
  • Program expense ratio: 89.5%; rating input score 90
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Pass
    • 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: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 0%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.22; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.96; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 4.7%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 11 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 89.7% of revenue deployed · 89.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 12 of 14 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $82.1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $922K · 22 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.7M reported
  • Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes executive pay and related organizations
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 6 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 29/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 8/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.