Center for Enriching Relationships Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 263403146
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2014
- Location
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6198583105
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,501,253
- Expenses
- $1,544,777
- Assets
- $708,839
- Liabilities
- $94,219
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Don Welch (CEO and Lead Therapist (see schedule O note))
Highest reported compensation
- Don Welch (CEO and Lead Therapist (see schedule O note)): $367,888 total reported compensation
- Robin Welch (COO): $108,333 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
CER exists to actively enrich and support personal, relational, and family healing within the community.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Center for Enriching Relationships provides several sites that utilize licensed Psychotherapists, registered associate therapists, psychological assistants, and/or practicum/trainee students who work as relationship specialists in providing counseling for individuals, couples, groups, families, and children. The therapists also offer seminars to local communities and establishments. CER uses a mixture of insurance billing, sliding scales for fees, and hardship applications to provide mental health therapy services at low or no cost to clients. Since some third party insurance providers do not reimburse for the full cost of services, CER collected $662,043 less in fees in 2025 due to insurance adjustments. Sliding scale and hardship application fee reductions for 2025 were $77,707.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 98% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 34
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 80.5%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 50%; rating input score 50; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 11
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2.9%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.46; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 30.8%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.1% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.9% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 26.3% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85% of revenue deployed · 80.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 4 board members independent · 1 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $368K · 4 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $110K reported
- Consistency: 41 of 41 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 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.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.